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Battle of Shiloh

​Confederate Commander

Gen. Albert Sidney Johnston

Forces Engaged: 38,773

Killed: 1,728

Wounded: 8,012

Captured or Missing: 959

Total: 10,699

April 6-7, 1862

Hardin County, Tennessee

Union victory

Federal Penetration up the Cumberland and Tennessee Rivers (1862)

Also Called: Pittsburg Landing

​Union Commander

Maj. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant

Forces Engaged: 44,895

Killed: 1,754

Wounded: 8,408

Captured or Missing: 2,885

Total: 13,047

Confederate Officers

Gen. P. G. T. Beauregard

Maj. Gen. Leonidas Polk

Gen. Braxton Bragg

Lt. Gen. William J. Hardee

 

 

Confederate Order of Battle

Army of the Mississippi

 

Confederate Official Records

Official Records 178 - 229

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Union Officers

Maj. Gen. John A. McClernand

Brig. Gen. W. H. L. Wallace

Brig. Gen. S. A. Hurlbut

Maj. Gen. Lewis Wallace

Brig. Gen. B. M. Prentiss

Maj. Gen. James A. Garfield

 

Army of the Ohio

Maj. Gen. Don Carlos Buell

Brig. Gen. A. McD. McCook

Brig. Gen. William Nelson

Brig. Gen. Thomas L. Crittenden

Brig. Gen. Lovell H. Rousseau

Brig. Gen. Thomas J. Wood

 

Union Order of Battle

Army of the Tennessee

Army of the Ohio

 

USS Tyler

Lt. Commander William Gwin

USS Lexington

Lt. Commander James Shark

 

Union Official Records

Official Records 1 - 86

Official Records 87 - 133

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Army of the Tennessee

Forces Engaged: 44,895

Casualties: 10,944

Killed: 1,513

Wounded: 6,601

Missing or Captured: 2,830

 

Army of the Ohio

Forces Engaged:

Casualties: 2,108

Killed: 241

Wounded: 1,807

Missing or Captured: 55

 

What I Saw of Shiloh

by Ambrose Bierce

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Beauregard, G. T. "The Campaign of Shiloh." Johnson, Robert Underwood and Clarence Clough Buel. Battles and Leaders of

          the Civil War Grant-Lee Edition. Volume I-Part II. New York: Century Co., 1884-1887. rpt. National Historical Society,

          2005. p 526-593

Boatner, Mark M. III. The Civil War Dictionary. New York: David McKay, 1967. p 752-757

Brands, H. W. The Man Who Saved the Union Ulysses Grant in War and Peace. New York: Doubleday, 2012. p 176-188

Buell, Don Carlos. "Shiloh Reviewed." Johnson, Robert Underwood and Clarence Clough Buel. Battles and Leaders of 

          the Civil War Grant-Lee Edition. Volume I-Part II. New York: Century Co., 1884-1887. rpt. National Historical Society,

          2005. p 487-536

Chisolm, A. R. "The Battle Order and the Withdrawal Sunday Evening." Johnson, Robert Underwood and Clarence Clough

          Buel. Battles and Leaders of the Civil War Grant-Lee Edition. Volume I-Part II. New York: Century Co., 1884-1887. rpt.

          National Historical Society, 2005. p 606

Commager, Henry Steele. The Blue and The Gray. New York: Fairfax Press, 1982. p 351-365

---------------------------------, ed. The Civil War Archive The History of the Civil War Documents. New York: Tess Press, 1973. p

          266-271, 272-277

Cozzens, Peter & Robert Girardi. The New Annals of the Civil War. Mechanicsburg, PA: Stackpole Books, 2004. p 49-61

Current, Richard N., ed. "Shiloh Campaign." Encyclopedia of the Confederacy. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1993. p

          1420-1423

Doucherty, Kevin J., Martin J. Dougherty, Parker Hills, Chris McNab, and Michael F. Pavkovic. Battles of the Civil War

          1861-1865 From Fort Sumter to Petersburg. London: Amber Books, 2017. p 60-69

English Combatant. Battle-Fields of the South From Bull Run to Fredericksburg. New York: John Bradburn, 1864. rpt.

          Alexandria, VA: Time-Life Books, 1981. p 151-160

Foote, Shelby. Fort Sumter to Perryville The Civil War A Narrative Volume I. New York: Vintage Books, 1986. p 340-351

------------------- The Civil War Fort Donelson to Memphis. Alexandria, VA: Time-Life Books, 1986. p 172-223

Grant, Ulysses S. Personal Memoirs Ulysses S. Grant. New York: Charles Webster & Co., 1885. rpt. New York: Modern Library,

          1999. p 178-185

Grant, Ulysses S. "The Battle of Shiloh." Johnson, Robert Underwood and Clarence Clough Buel. Battles and Leaders of 

          the Civil War Grant-Lee Edition. Volume I-Part II. New York: Century Co., 1884-1887. rpt. National Historical Society,

          2005. p 465-486

Johnston, William Preston. "Albert Sidney Johnston at Shiloh." Johnson, Robert Underwood and Clarence Clough Buel.

          Battles and Leaders of  the Civil War Grant-Lee Edition. Volume I-Part II. New York: Century Co., 1884-1887. rpt.

          National Historical Society, 2005. p 540-568

Martin, David G. The Shiloh Campaign March-April 1862. Bryn Mawr, PA: Weiser & Weiser, 1987. p 115-378

​Mertz, Gregory A. Attack at Daylight and Whip Them The Battle of Shiloh April 6-7, 1862, El Dorado Hills, CA: Savas Beattie,

          2019.

Nevin, David, ed. The Road to Shiloh Early Battles in the West The Civil War Volume 22 of 27. Alexandria, VA: Time-Life

          Books, 1983. p 105-152

Sears, Stephen W., ed. The Civil War The Second Year Told by Those Who Lived It. New York: Library of America, 2012. p

          157-171

Swinton, William. Decisive Battles of the Civil War. New York: Promontory Press, 1986. p 86-138

Wallace, Lew. "The March of Lew Wallace's Division to Shiloh." Johnson, Robert Underwood and Clarence Clough Buel.

          Battles and Leaders of the Civil War Grant-Lee Edition. Volume I-Part II. New York: Century Co., 1884-1887. rpt. National

          Historical Society, 2005. p 607-611

Warner, Ezra J. Generals in Blue Lives of the Union Commanders. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State, 1964.

------------------- Generals in Gray Lives of the Confederate Commanders. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State, 1992

Williams, T. Henry. P. G. T. Beauregard Napoleon in Gray. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State, 1955. p 126-132. 133, 149

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