Shiloh Battle, Pittsburg Landing | Grant, Sherman, McClernand | Johnston, Beauregard | Tennessee map

What was the battle of Shiloh?
Why is Shiloh so important?
The battle of Shiloh or Pittsburg Landing is a critical battle in the Western Theater of the American Civil War.
April, 1862. Ulysses S. Grant advances to Savannah, Tennessee. The Army of the Tennessee unloads up the Tennessee River at Pittsburg Landing, near a Methodist church called Shiloh. Don Carlos Buell's Army of the Ohio is approaching to rendezvous with Grant.
Meanwhile, Albert Sidney Johnston and Pierre Beauregard are rejoining the Confederate armies of the west at Corinth, Mississippi. Johnston plans to hit Grant before Buell meets with him.
The Confederate advance is slowed by April rains. But on April 6, 1862, the Confederates are aligned just south of the Union lines near Shiloh church. Hardee, Bragg, Polk, and Breckinridge strike.
Sherman and Prentiss are at the front of the Union lines. They are driven back in the morning to the Hamburg-Purdy Road. The Confederates take Sherman and Prentiss' camps.
But Hurlbut, WHL Wallace, and McClernand move up to support Sherman and Prentiss. Grant arrives on the field. Sherman and McClernand are pushed back toward the Pittsburg Landing, but WHL Wallace, Prentiss, and Hurlbut hold the Sunken Road, which becomes known as the "Hornet's Nest."
Bragg and Breckinridge strike the Hornet's Nest. Hurlbut is thrown out of the Peach Orchard, but Albert Sidney Johnston is killed. But the rebels train cannon on the road. Then WHL Wallace is wounded. Hurlbut and WHL Wallace pull out. Prentiss remains, and he holds the Hornet's Nest until he is surrounded. 2,200 Union soldiers are trapped at the Sunken Road and become captured.
Night falls. Just about 120 miles from the Shiloh battlefield, the ironclads Carondelet and Pittsburg have passed through the defenses at Island Number (No.) 10 on the Mississippi River.
Buell arrives in the night at Savannah. His men steam down to the Union front near Pittsburg Landing. The next morning, Grant and Buell plan a counterattack. The timberclads, the Tyler and the Lexington, arrive on the Tennessee River and hold back a Confederate drive by Chalmers and Jackson near the landing. Lew Wallace arrives from Crump's Landing, and reforms the Union right wing.
On the morning of April 7, Buell and Grant hit back. The Confederates are pushed back down the battlefield. Fighting restarts between Buell's divisions under Crittenden and Nelson near the Sunken Road. Chalmers attacks. But the Union line drives them back.
McClernand and McCook come down the center, retaking McClernand's old camps. Sherman is now near his Shiloh camps.
Beauregard knows he cannot hold. Breckinridge is put in line to form a cover. Hardee, Polk, and Bragg pull back down the road to Corinth. The Battle of Shiloh is over.
Both sides lose over 10,000 men in the worst battle in North America up to that point. The next day, General Pope and the ironclads take Island No. 10, and the Union advance in the west progresses.
This film was made by Jeffrey Meyer, historian and research librarian, Iowa.
Images from the Library of Congress.
Satellite images from Google Maps
This is a visual map presentation of the battle of Shiloh.

[@jamesforeman4368]

One of the best battlefield videos that I have seen. Laying out the geography, with streams, roads and features help in understanding the ground, and why the CSA ended up in clockwise rotation instead of a counter-clockwise rotation away from Pittsburg Landing trapping the Union against Owl Creek. The Battlefield Trust has made some recent videos that also show why the ground dictated the CSA deployment instead of Beauregard’s original battle plan. I especially appreciate the zooming in and out for context. I am now a fan, keep up the great work.

[@JeffreytheLibrarian]

Thank you! I really appreciate it.

[@rg20322]

This is one of the best I've seen with such detail, quality and exemplary commentary. I couldn't stop watching until the end!

[@frankmiller95]

Excellent presentation. Having visited this battlefield on several occasions, this is best explanation of a very complex battle. To those haven't been there, this is, or was until the mid 90s, the best preserved major battlefield of the Civil War. When walking the trails and following the audio guides, there is no visible modern intrusion, no power lines, highways or even paved roads, buildings or other, distracting, modern crap. The absence of those distractions allows us to fully focus on and appreciate the magnitude of the struggle. lf this presentation could be incorporated into the battlefield guides, it would be a perfect complement to an in-person visit.

[@JeffreytheLibrarian]

Thank you. I visited Gettysburg a number of times in the 90s and thought the best exhibit they had was the electric map. They should have kept that one.

[@exposethenwo6491]

I have been there twice.

[@stevepowell6503]

Nice. Thank you for the info. I would like to visit,but wanted to make sure it was well-preserved.

[@josephagnello9335]

You are one of the best commentators of history, on history. Your voice is clear, pleasing authoritative. Your common sense call approach backed w facts,field layouts as well as satellite imagery,makes it easy for the viewer to follow you and battle progressions. Yor videos of the colonization of North America from 1490s is the best overview this observer and lover of history has ever seen. Thank you so very much.

[@hilltopper1981]

Thank you for this brilliant summary. As a Boy Scout in the 1970’s I spent days and nights at the battlefield, not knowing at that time that my great, great, great grandfather had been a casualty there. He absorbed a rebel bullet, returned to his Kentucky home, and died the following April. He died from the war, not at the battle. This is a beautiful summary of (at the time) America’s greatest tragedy. Thank you for creating, summarizing, and sharing.

[@chasemanhart]

After deep diving on the battle of Shiloh the past few days, this is the best video I've seen. It does the best at orienting me where everyone is, and the significance behind their locations. Most "battle maps" even the good, animated ones can still look like a cluster of 1-side vs the other with no real sense of scale. Great job.

[@JeffreytheLibrarian]

Thank you so much! That means a lot to me.

[@garyfuiten5126]

Visited TN in the fall of 2016. Went to see B Pussers home and J D Distillery. Went by this place. Had the afternoon to kill figuring it would be boring. Hands down the most interesting place I've ever visited. Never was to a Battlefield before. It was Fall. Very quiet. Few people. The Monuments were unbelievable. The info signs were all over. I learned so much.

[@mjfleming319]

I went through Tennessee this summer and stopped at the George Dickel distillery just down the road from JD, then went on to Chickamauga battlefield in Georgia. Highly recommend that trip if you ever get the chance.

[@LaurieGeePea]

The very best explanation of this battle!!! Thank you for your efforts.

[@JeffreytheLibrarian]

Thank you so much. That really means alot to me.

[@Sir.suspicious]

I've watched many civil war documentaries and videos, NOTHING beats your content

[@JeffreytheLibrarian]

Thank you!

[@Owennerd]

The best breakdowns of the American Civil War's battles! I love the way you really show the terrain. So many videos focus on the more human elements, and exaggerate them, while the geography that actually and truly defined the battle is a more of a footnote than the focus.

[@JeffreytheLibrarian]

Thank you, friend! I was recently going through older comments, and I realized I somehow missed this comment and Super Thanks. Thank you for your generosity. Sorry about the delayed response. I just missed it until now.

[@Owennerd]

@@JeffreytheLibrarian I didn't do it for a response, so no problem! Love your videos.

[@petereddinger3249]

An excellent walk-thru of the battle movements. WELL DONE!!!

[@JeffreytheLibrarian]

Thanks!

[@bat2293]

Excellent presentation.

[@JeffreytheLibrarian]

Thank you!

[@Tom37323]

Thank you for the excellent review of the western battlefield and details of Shiloh. Walking up from Pittsburgh landing and viewing the cemetery with battery placements is quite sobering.

[@JeffreytheLibrarian]

It's very humbling to be in a place like that. Thanks for watching!

[@trevorthompson8252]

If I did not know better I’d say you were there. Excellent presentation.

[@JeffreytheLibrarian]

Thanks for watching!

[@jaynoyd]

Very well done... Thanks for sharing. I enjoyed the road outlay, the geography map and the detailed movements of the armies.!

[@JeffreytheLibrarian]

Thank you!

[@Squatch_Rider66]

Great perspective and action report of the engagement. Thanks for putting this presentation together. Keep up the good work.

[@JeffreytheLibrarian]

Thank you!

[@freedomforever3375]

Thanks for the video.Great job!

[@JeffreytheLibrarian]

Much appreciated!

[@bobby19053]

Your work is excellent,I greatly admire you for the detail you put into your work!

[@JeffreytheLibrarian]

Thank you so much!

[@BuzzSargent]

This may be a weird comment. However, as you moved through this battle I felt chills from the ferocity of the battle from each side. The sheer numbers of men meeting each other like this in battle. Oh my goodness! God Bless Us All.

[@stevepowell6503]

I have felt that as well. I have visited many battlefields, but for some reason Cold Harbor gave me chills.

[@johnhughes3963]

You made a very informative and critical video. I have read all about the battle of Shiloh..but you put the visuals together perfectly!! Thank You

[@JeffreytheLibrarian]

Thank you!

[@centerleft4957]

Great video. Thank you. Subscribed. As I listening your narration, my heart felt deep sorrow for all those brave fallen soldiers from both sides.

[@JeffreytheLibrarian]

Thanks for watching!

[@bfg1836]

I’ve been to the battlefield a few times. I’ve also slept in the house that was Grant’s headquarters following the battle while the army recovered. It was owned by my aunt and her new husband. The diary of the woman who owned it at the time is on display in the parlor, and they gave tours in the spring. The original dining table was there with Grant’s cigar burns, and the nicks from Sherman’s sword are still on the banister of the stairs. He beat on the banister with his sword to piss off the owner. It’s all in the diary.

[@Brian-zp1df]

Cool

[@svenrio8521]

Lol classic Sherman 😂

[@jeffreyvanderklip6769]

Very well presented. Have been to the battlefield and seen the terrain that both sides had to encounter. Very humbling to see the bloody pond and being told it was named because the water turned red from the blood of both sides. Both sides had their last moments trying to drink the water.

[@JeffreytheLibrarian]

Very humbling to go to the location. The carnage at Shiloh was the first sight of battle that many of these men experienced.

[@exposethenwo6491]

@@JeffreytheLibrarian With the battle a realization that the war was going to last longer and be much deadlier than initially thought.

[@stevepowell6503]

What is your opinion of it as a historic site? I have seen many of the Eastern battlefields, as well as the ones around Chattanooga, and it is a mixed bag. I would like to visit it, but it is an 8 hour drive I don't want to make unless the battlefield is well-preserved.

[@donlove3741]

Nicely done !

[@paulnienhaus5359]

Excellent. I toured the Shiloh battlefield recently as part of the 160th anniversary. I was thus able to follow your fine presentation with great interest.

[@JeffreytheLibrarian]

Thank you for watching!

[@somato2688]

The details of every regiment's movement and action are remarkable. Thank you for your service. No one does battles like you. Not even epic historytv is as detailed.

[@JeffreytheLibrarian]

Thank you for the nice comments. I really appreciate it.

[@exposingthedarknesswiththe9190]

*AN INCREDIBLE ACCOUNT OF HOW THE TWO SIDES FOUGHT THIS BLOODY BATTLE, AS THIS WAS A NECESSARY ACCOUNT OF THE CIVIL WAR, JUST AMAZING!!* *MUCH APPRECIATED TO SEE THIS ANIMATION TO UNDERSTAND HOW IT ALL UNFOLDED, WOW!!*

[@JeffreytheLibrarian]

Thank you so much for the nice comments! Much appreciated!

[@mitzimcewan9124]

Great timing to view this as I am 3/4 way through “ A Blaze of Glory” . This really clarified a many details!

[@theodorebranin1365]

Excellent, excellent video!!

[@JeffreytheLibrarian]

Thank you!

[@wxx3]

What a quality description. Your use of maps and overhead shots of topography is outstanding, certainly best I've ever seen. Thank you so much.

[@JeffreytheLibrarian]

Thank you so much!

[@richardmorse5307]

While only starting to learn about the Civil War I had heard about the battle of Shiloh and this explanation is one of the best if not the best I’ve ever seen.

[@JeffreytheLibrarian]

Much appreciated! Thanks for watching!

[@aaronfleming9426]

I just visited Shiloh on vacation. This video was such a wonderful aid in getting ready to see the ground! Fantastic!

[@JeffreytheLibrarian]

Thank you! So glad you got to walk the grounds.

[@mrpouchy]

i love these

[@JeffreytheLibrarian]

Thanks for watching!

[@uglyfrog7263]

Outstanding piece of work!

[@JeffreytheLibrarian]

Thank you!

[@zetectic7968]

A very good presentation of the battle. Thanks

[@JeffreytheLibrarian]

Thank you!

[@johnglenn30csardas]

Great piece. Thank you.

[@antonleimbach648]

I absolutely love your videos. The analysis and presentation are top notch and pray you keep making them. Thank you!

[@JeffreytheLibrarian]

I will keep making them. It takes about two months to get a big one researched and finished. Thank you!

[@Senor0Droolcup]

I am late to the party and just discovered this fabulous channel. These are some of the best Civil War battle videos I’ve seen in 30 years of study in the Civil War. I very much hope you will continue with these and thank you so much.

[@JeffreytheLibrarian]

Thank you so much! That means alot to me.

[@halkanuzman7396]

Thank you so much for making this video! My 4x grandfather was in the 43rd Illinois Regiment and now, thanks to this video, I know he was under Raith/Englemen and exactly what his movements were during this battle. Wonderful!

[@JeffreytheLibrarian]

Thank you for watching! I'm glad you were able to make a family connection. That's neat.

[@findingmo7049]

Incredible and long narration of hard to connect details of history. Well done!

[@JeffreytheLibrarian]

Much appreciated!

[@atldeadhead]

So glad I stumbled on your videos! They are fantastic. I’ve read and watched many documentaries about Shiloh but this may be my favorite. Your narrative along with the presentation on the map is really great. Thank you for your effort on making this.

[@pokipua]

Really love your videos. So meticulously detailed!

[@JeffreytheLibrarian]

Thank you!

[@michaelcalland801]

Fantastic Job… Detail of unit movement is perfect..

[@MrFerrell55]

Fantastic presentation. My 5th great-grandfather, Robert Harmon Day, died on April 22 from wounds sustained at Shiloh, allegedly being wounded on the second day of battle. He was (probably) in the 7th Mississippi Regiment, Chalmers brigade. I’ve been to Shiloh before, but it’s kind of surreal to see it laid out so clearly like this. I can almost envision where and how he was wounded. Excellent video, 10/10.

[@HerschelSarnoff]

Excellent!!

[@jackhays1194]

Most informative and understandable. Excellent video, thank you.

[@JeffreytheLibrarian]

I appreciate it!

[@lynnlpickering9076]

I am so glad that I found your page.

[@JeffreytheLibrarian]

Thanks for watching!

[@julianpalmer4886]

Incredible detail. I now fully understand this Momentous Western Battle's toes & froes

[@JeffreytheLibrarian]

Thank you!

[@gowherethereisnopath]

Absolutely fantastic! Thank you so very much. Best civil war battle presentation I've seen.

[@JeffreytheLibrarian]

Much appreciated!

[@rodsherwood2036]

Thank you I watch your videos and feel I can trust the research you have done.

[@JeffreytheLibrarian]

Thanks! Nothing's perfect, but I do alot of research and double checking.

[@leoren2685]

Thanks so much for this! Have been trying to understand where Tuttle was exactly in the Hornet's Nest, as my gr gr grandfather fought in his regiment. Now have a much clearer picture of where he was and what sort of terrain he was in during the fighting, as well as an excellent overall picture now of the entire battle and troop movements. Bravo!

[@leoren2685]

As an aside, my ancestor was wounded on the first day and lay outside in the rain overnight in enemy territory; he was recovered after the Union troops retook the ground and was invalided out. Lucky not to be captured like many others of the Hornet's Nest soldiers. He went to quite a few Shiloh reunions in subsequent years.

[@TheDukeofWellington1815]

I recently had the pleasure of visiting Shiloh, this video was absolutely amazing even if you haven’t gone to the battlefield yourself. The way that the creator uses landmarks in roads for orientation is unparalleled. If you ever get the chance to visit Shiloh, I suggest you take it. It is a beautiful battlefield with a lot of history and a lot of people who want to tell you about it.

[@nickroberts6984]

The graphics are wonderful ! I finally saw Shiloh in 2021, but I long to go back ! Thank you for interpretibg the actions there. I'll have a better grasp on the battle next time. 💥🇺🇸💥

[@JeffreytheLibrarian]

Thanks for watching! I try to add one new dimension to the graphics on each video, so I appreciate you noticing.

[@awaxx7863]

I am a Fiend….. I have watched all your videos and I need more.

[@JeffreytheLibrarian]

Thank you for watching! More to come!

[@Weesel71]

Very good. I've read descriptions of the battle but your animations put it all into a clearly understood context.

[@zovaynezovanyari5442]

That was an awesome presentation. Thank you.

[@JeffreytheLibrarian]

Thanks for watching!

[@CatastrophicFarms]

This was great. Interesting and easy to follow. Thanks for creating this video. My 3x Great grandfather was in the 3rd Iowa, fighting under Williams and Hurlbut at the Hornet's Nest.

[@Rocks_Dad]

Really awesome job. I've searched for this info all over and now I finally understand what happened during the battle. Thanks

[@JeffreytheLibrarian]

Thank you, friend!

[@Rocks_Dad]

@@JeffreytheLibrarian I mean the way you give the blow by blow helped me completely understand how it went down. I've watched many shiloh videos and they usually confuse me with a smorgasbord of info. It basically was an attempt to cut off the landing and Prentiss and Sherman gave Grant enough time to put big guns up to block it until Buells reinforcements came.

[@RemoteViewr1]

Great work! Content made understandable with maps, actual terrain features, and explanations of tactics and their effects. I finally get it.

[@JeffreytheLibrarian]

Much appreciated!

[@berthika1219]

Wow excellent presentation and use of zooming. Studied this battle so many times but never seen it in this much detail and full understanding. Got me Jeff. Now to look at other battles thank you

[@JeffreytheLibrarian]

Thank you!

[@waynewilliams839]

If this was a movie, it would deserve an Oscar !!!! 😊

[@swhip897]

Great presentation New subscriber.

[@JeffreytheLibrarian]

Much appreciated!

[@terrytenley9327]

Wow great effort to show and explain this battle.. thank you..☺️

[@JeffreytheLibrarian]

Much appreciated!

[@matthewplehn4271]

no drama just facts and results .....i like itt...subbed

[@christopherjames5895]

Very good !

[@JeffreytheLibrarian]

Thank you!

[@greaserbubtheoriginal7923]

JEFF I JUST FOUND YOUR CHANNEL A FEW DAYS AGO AND I AM ADDICITED SIR !!!! I REALLY APPRECIATE THE ATTENTION TO DETAIL THAT YOU PUT IN THESE VIDEOS !!! IT WAS A MIRACLE THAT GRANT WON THIS BATTLE !! IN THE FUTURE DO YOU THINK YOU COULD DO A SERIES ON SOME LESSER KNOWN BUT BIG BATTLES LIKE THE BATTLE OF MOBILE ???? THANKS AND I LOVE YOUR CHANNEL ;];];];];];]

[@JeffreytheLibrarian]

Thank you! This means alot to me. I am going to do the lesser-known actions as I go along.

[@davidringo1399]

Very good......impressed..

[@JeffreytheLibrarian]

Thank you!

[@chriskilmer5197]

Well done - a tight script with strong narration

[@fredsmit3481]

Amazing video. I thought I had an understanding of Shiloh until I watch this. I learned a lot from you.

[@JeffreytheLibrarian]

Thank you!

[@Owennerd]

I absolutely love your breakdowns of these battles. I would kill for one on Fredericksburg

[@JeffreytheLibrarian]

Fredericksburg is on the horizon. Thank you for watching!

[@Owennerd]

@@JeffreytheLibrarian You're the best! Is there anywhere to support your work, like a Patreon or equivalent service?

[@JeffreytheLibrarian]

@@Owennerd That is so kind of you to offer support. The two ways I have now for direct support are the "Thanks" button below the video (to the right of the Like and Download buttons) or the Spreadshop merchandise that you may see below the video. Thank you!

[@exposethenwo6491]

Definitely a good subject to cover.

[@donald.kelley7000]

Excellent 👍👍

[@JeffreytheLibrarian]

Thank you!

[@gregoryurbach3015]

The clearest explanation of the battle I've ever seen.

[@skpjoecoursegold366]

well done.

[@JeffreytheLibrarian]

Thank you!

[@Samuel-o7j2f]

You do such a nice job, thank you.

[@JeffreytheLibrarian]

Thank you for watching!

[@westtnskirmishlog6820]

We are all stoked about the upcoming Shiloh reenactment April 2022, excellent video, thank you for leaving out modern political noise and personal opinions, it is so nice and a change. Appreciate your work, I will be sure to send this to members of our company. Thank you sir.

[@JeffreytheLibrarian]

Thank you for watching! 160 years is coming up fast!

[@westtnskirmishlog6820]

@@JeffreytheLibrarian be awesome if you could be there sir, understand if not. But with the reenactors, park service and the unreal support of the good local folks, we intend to demonstrate history to the best of our abilities. God bless you and yours sir.

[@stevearchtoe7039]

This deserves more views.

[@JeffreytheLibrarian]

Thank you for watching!

[@johnmarlin4661]

I have a distance relative buried at the National.Cemetary at Shiloh from Hulbuts Div . He was in Co E 3rd Iowa Inf . Thank you for your fine video !!

[@JeffreytheLibrarian]

Thank you for watching! Iowa held strong at Shiloh.

[@mattterry1255]

You do great work. Love it!

[@gregkientop559]

Great story-telling with aerial and lidar imagery. My ancestor fought with the 12th Iowa (under Tuttle?) at the Hornets Nest and became a POW. After a later POW exchange, he also participated in the Vicksburg siege. Any plans on covering that legendary campaign?

[@JeffreytheLibrarian]

Thank you! Yes, the 12th Iowa was in Tuttle's brigade in WHL Wallace's division. They were one of the outfits that got encircled and captured. I plan on covering as many Civil War campaigns as possible, and Vicksburg would be an important one to do.

[@karlpk3907]

Absolutely outstanding presentation. You have a new subscriber. Up until Shiloh, both sides and their civilian populations had not fully grasped that the war was going to be one of huge armies taking the field, wielding thousands of troops firing rifled weapons with high caliber low muzzle velocity mini balls that created gaping wounds and shattered bones, along with massed artillery sending grapeshot and cannonballs at close range. There wouldn't be just one decisive Waterloo. There would be multiple non-decisive Waterloos -- Shiloh the first, then Antietam, Chancellorsville, Fredericksburg, Gettysburg, the Wilderness, the March to the Sea. Shiloh was a shock. But the shocks continued as the maimed and the wounded and the dead mounted and mounted and mounted over multi-day battles as the lines ebbed and flowed from attack to retreat to attack and again and again. Remember the conversation between Grant and Sherman after the first day of Shiloh? "Well, Grant, we've had the devil to pay." Grant's reply? "We'll lick 'em tomorrow." The tomorrows looked like they would never end.

[@wiitmann205]

A most excellent layout of the battle of Shiloh! Thank you for all the hard work, I'm now smarter as a result! lol

[@JeffreytheLibrarian]

Thank you, friend!

[@davewallace8219]

Forget the scribbling of ken burns...these videos are the best!

[@JeffreytheLibrarian]

Thank you!

[@pimhoff]

Great video. Unless you have walked the ground, it is hard to appreciate how difficult a place it was to fight between the woods and swales separating the occasional bigger farm fields. So completely different from Eastern battlefields. My great, great grandfather fought in the 6th Iowa which was the end of the Union right on the first day. I found a place in the woods where they held for over three hours in mid afternoon. There is a confederate burial trench in front of their position and a regimental burial trench behind (Union soldiers were later moved to the national cemetery) less than 100 feet apart. They were then moved in the late afternoon to support the guns at Pittsburgh Landing. After the first day they were so decimated that they did not fight as a unified commend but were parceled out to support other units. I have read his letters and he never wrote directly about the battle. But he did revisit it in the 1880s. Must have had a profound impact. He fought all the way through to Atlanta where he was either wounded or became very sick. Shiloh appears to be the only battlefield he revisited after the war.

[@Clannadeagha]

You do a great job of detailing all the battle schematics, and tell it in a very interesting way. Could you do the Battle of Fredericksburg sometime? I went to college there, and would love to hear you discuss it.

[@JeffreytheLibrarian]

Fredericksburg is on the radar. I plan on doing that one soon.

[@alecsanchez8939]

I’d like to see a battle of chickamauga video done like this, this is so cool and it’s super easy to understand

[@JeffreytheLibrarian]

I will get to Chickamauga. It's coming some day.

[@shifter1919]

@Jeffery the Librarian ....I'd love to see the battle of Chickamauga. Second bloodiest battle, Shiloh in reverse, it's never talked about.

[@JeffreytheLibrarian]

Yes, I will get to Chickamauga. I was actually just looking at a map of it, and you're right, it's Shiloh II.

[@matthewmcelroy5369]

Thanks. Well done.

[@JeffreytheLibrarian]

Much appreciated!

[@upkevington]

As a descendant of one who fought and survived this intense engagement, I say, “Excellent!” My one question with Grant’s battle plan is, “Why did he not send the fresher forces in day two’s reinforcements after the tired, retreating Confederates?”

[@frankmiller95]

lf it was a mistake, it was one he did not repeat.

[@FS-mt5qu]

Great job

[@JeffreytheLibrarian]

Thank you!

[@patabshire9161]

My great x? Grandfather (Jacob Hesler)and his brother John fought for the 18th La infantry (Pond) and the 13th La infantry under Gibson at Shiloh. They had both came over from France in 1832 and had changed the spelling of their last names from Heirtzler to Hesler to Im assuming to sound more americanized. They apparently were paroled at Labadieville, La in 1864. Crazy to imagine how it must've felt to be there in the middle of all that. I've been there once.

[@BenSHammonds]

enjoyed this much

[@JeffreytheLibrarian]

Thank you!

[@Vulcaani]

Thank you!

[@JeffreytheLibrarian]

Thank you!

[@The_PaleHorseman]

My great great grandfather was in this battle for the Union. He was in the 59th OVI company H, Theodore C. Altman along with his brother my great great uncle Jacob Altman. Day 2 my great great grandfather was wounded in the hip and his brother my great great uncle, KIA. Somewhere in the general vicinity of the Bloody Pond

[@mwhyte1979]

Hope you do a video on the battle of Franklin TN.

[@upkevington]

Is there a similar recreation/examination of Stones River? My descendant went on to fight and survive there also.

[@Nic-do5ss]

these are fantastic. have you considered doing other wars? Ww1,2 and on?

[@JeffreytheLibrarian]

Yes, I will get to these other conflicts. They may be summer projects when my regular work is lighter, because world war battles are HUGE.

[@hvymettle]

Confederate strategy had been to defend all key points and this resulted in many forces dispersed in small garrisons that were idle. Johnston had to convince Jefferson Davis that a concentration of all these idle forces was needed to strike a blow at Grant's army before it was united with Buell's army. The government finally realized it had no alternative. Credit to the Confederacy for achieving the concentration it did but the troops it missed most was the corps captured at Ft. Donelson which was needed at noon on the first day at Shiloh to have pushed the attack home against the Union left.

[@SteveWillSpendIt]

Going to visit Shiloh and Pittsburg landing tomorrow !

[@JeffreytheLibrarian]

Enjoy your visit!

[@billsmart2532]

Well done.

[@JeffreytheLibrarian]

Thank you!

[@MostHigh777]

It's very important to remember when you read about civil war battles that essentially every battle fought where in both sides absorbed heavy casualties should be counted as a union victory for obvious reasons. Even if the Union army was routed if the Confederates suffered anything close to Union casualty levels the Confederates had lost.

[@JeffreytheLibrarian]

This is a very good point. I think this is why Lee wanted to get a victory in the north. He knew the arithmetic was not good. The south could only win if the north lost the political will to keep it going.

[@Odonanmarg]

That was a good one.