Battle Of Shiloh Summary:The Battle of Shiloh (aka Battle of Pittsburg Landing) was fought on April 6–7, 1862, in southwestern Tennessee not far from Corinth, Mississippi. General Albert Sidney Johnston, commander of Confederate forces in the Western Theater, hoped to defeat Union major general...
BOOK REVIEWS351 "Seeing the Elephant": Raw Recruits at the Battle of Shiloh. By Joseph A. Frank and George A. Reaves. (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1989. Pp. 215. $39.95.) This is one of the better "face of battle" books of the last decade. The authors have painstakingly reco...
The Battle of Gettysburg (local i/ˈɡɛtɨsbɜrɡ/, with an /s/ sound)[6] was fought July 1–3, 1863, in and around the town of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania between Union and Confederate forces during the American Civil War. The battle involved the largest number of casualties of ...
A terrain analysis of the Shiloh Battlefield is presented in conjunction with a meteorological assesment of the conditions prevelant during the battle. The intent of the analysis was to ascertain the effect that conditions may have played upon the strategic and tactical prior to and during the ...
On the 5thJune a patrol under Col. Spreckley was preparing to leave Bulawayo to build forts at Shiloh and Inyati when Sir Charles Metcalfe and the Scout Burnham reported seeing a large amaNdebele force on the Umguza River at the ford where it was crossed by the Salisbury road, just 10 ...
Battle of Fort Donelsonand capturing over 12,000 Confederates. The twin defeats at Forts Henry and Donelson knocked a gaping hole in Johnston's defensive line and opened Tennessee to Union invasion. Large-scale fighting would resume in April when Johnston attacked Grant at theBattle of Shiloh....
XU Qin-Liang - 《Journal of Nanjing Institute of Technology》 被引量: 0发表: 2011年 BARNHOUSE, C.L.: Battle of Shiloh March / BUTTERFIELD, D.A.: Taps / NEWTON, J.: Amazing Grace (Blue and Gray - Songs of the Civil War) Whitman's realistic tendency is particularly displayed in his...
Where the South Lost the War: An Analysis of the Fort Henry-Fort Donelson Campaign The war probably could have been over in 1862 had Lieutenant Phelps destroyed the bridge at Florence. Not doing so provided a retreat for A. S. Johnston to move his men to Corinth and then to Shiloh ...
Following the Union victory at Shiloh, the Union armies under Major General Henry Halleck advanced on the vital rail center of Corinth. By May 25, 1862, after moving 5 miles in 3 weeks, Halleck was in position to lay siege to the town. The preliminary bombardment began, and Union ...
Hess (review) Halleck believed that the next big battle in the western theater after Shiloh would be at Corinth,but his glacia] advance against the town allowed the ... W Mulligan - 《Ohio Valley History》 被引量: 0发表: 2015年