Shiloh

Shiloh, one of the most desperate battles of the American civil war, takes its name from a log meeting-house, 2 miles from Pittsburg Landing, which is on the Tennessee River, 8 miles above Savannah. Here, on Sunday 6th April 1862, the Confederates (40,000) under General A. S. Johnston attacked and surprised the Union army (33,000) under General Grant. The battle raged from dawn to sunset, the Federal troops being steadily driven back; but the effort to utterly crush Grant failed, and the next day he won back all the ground he had lost, and the Confederates retreated. On the 6th Johnston was killed while heading the charge of a brigade. The Southerners had 1728 killed, 8012 wounded, and 957 missing; the Northerners, 1754 killed, 8408 wounded, and 2885 missing.