In early April 1862, a Union army under Ulysses S. Grant camped along the Tennessee River at Pittsburg Landing, waiting for reinforcements before pushing south into Mississippi. Their camps were spread loosely across farm fields and oak woods near a small log church called Shiloh Meeting House. Confederate General Albert Sidney Johnston marched 44,000 men up from Corinth to hit Grant first. At dawn on Sunday, April 6, they did...
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