‘the bloody sixth’ by Rick Reeves

‘brutal order’ by Alan Perry

‘friendly fire’ by Alan Perry

Shiloh 1862 : origins of the campaign

source : ‘Shiloh 1862 : the death of innocence’ campaign 054, Osprey publishing

The United States’ strategic plan to subjugate the Confederate States of America regarded the Mississippi river as a corridor of invasion which could split the Confederacy.

‘the devil at fallen timbers’ by Dan Nance

‘men of Arkansas’ by Don Troiani

‘charge through the peach orchard’ by John Paul Strain

‘Shiloh’ by Dan Nance

‘the war council’ by John Paul Strain

Shiloh (april 7 1862)

source : ‘the atlas of the civil war’ by James M. McPherson, Courage Books, 2005

Shiloh’s first day of slaughter also witnessed the death of the confederate leader, general Johnston, who fell at mid-afternoon, struck down by a stray bullet while directing the action on the confederate right.

Shiloh (april 6 1862)

source : ‘the atlas of the civil war’ by James M. McPherson, Courage Books, 2005

With the loss of fort Henry and Donelson in february, general Johnston withdrew his disheartened confederate forces into west Tennessee, northern Mississippi and Alabama to reorganize.

battle of Shiloh 1862

source : ‘the American civil war story’ BBC history magazine

Most of the press attention was on the eastern theatre of the war in Virginia.