Qualla: Battle of Shiloh https://qualla.com/battle-of-shiloh en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:14 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/d/n/1/p/battle-of-shiloh-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Battle of Shiloh https://qualla.com/battle-of-shiloh Battle of Shiloh: Introduction https://qualla.com/battle-of-shiloh/ Photo credit Darley "and other fine artists", Public domain. Sherman found Grant standing under a tree in the rain, past midnight on April 6, 1862. The day had been catastrophic. Grant's army had been surprised at Pittsburg Landing, driven back from their camps, nearly pushed into the Tennessee River. Seven thousand men were killed or wounded, three thousand captured, and ten thousand more had simply refused to fight, huddling under the bluffs at the river's edge. Sherman, himself wounded twice with three horses shot from under him, approached his commander. "Well, Grant, we've had the devil's own day, haven't we?" Grant, chewing an unlit cigar in the downpour, replied: "Yes. Lick 'em tomorrow, though."

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]]> Sun, 22 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/n/1/p/battle-of-shiloh-wp/dn1p-battle-of-shiloh-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Battle of Shiloh: The Hornet's Nest and the Gathering Dark https://qualla.com/battle-of-shiloh/ Photo credit File:Confederate Veteran volume 01.djvu: PLEASE COMPLETE AUTHOR INFORMATION derivative work: Engineerchange, Public domain. By sundown on April 6, the Confederate army under Generals Albert Sidney Johnston and P.G.T. Beauregard had shattered the Union camps around Shiloh Church and Pittsburg Landing in southwestern Tennessee. Johnston himself was dead -- shot in the leg during the assault, he bled out...

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]]> Sun, 22 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/n/1/p/battle-of-shiloh-wp/dn1p-battle-of-shiloh-the-hornets-nest-and-the-gathering-dark.mp3 0:06 2 full Battle of Shiloh: Reinforcements in the Storm https://qualla.com/battle-of-shiloh/ Photo credit Unknown author, Public domain. What Beauregard did not know was that Grant's situation was already changing. At 7:15 PM, Lew Wallace's division of 5,800 fresh troops finally reached the battlefield after a daylong march plagued by confusion over which road to take -- a controversy Wallace would spend decades t...

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]]> Sun, 22 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/n/1/p/battle-of-shiloh-wp/dn1p-battle-of-shiloh-reinforcements-in-the-storm.mp3 0:06 3 full Battle of Shiloh: Lick 'Em Tomorrow https://qualla.com/battle-of-shiloh/ Photo credit United States Military Academy, Department of Military Art and Engineering, with Colonel Vincent J. Esposito as the chief editor. Additional labels added by TwoScarsUp., Public domain. Grant attacked at dawn on April 7. On the east side, Buell's fresh divisions pushed forward against Hardee's disorganized Confederates. On the west, Wallace's men drove Pond's exhausted brigade from Jones Field. Sherman and McClernand joined the advance, and by 10:30 AM four Unio...

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]]> Sun, 22 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/n/1/p/battle-of-shiloh-wp/dn1p-battle-of-shiloh-lick-em-tomorrow.mp3 0:06 4 full Battle of Shiloh: A Nation Counts Its Dead https://qualla.com/battle-of-shiloh/ Photo credit John T. McCutcheon, Public domain. The numbers shocked America. Union casualties totaled 13,047: 1,754 killed, 8,408 wounded, 2,885 missing or captured. Confederate losses reached 10,699: 1,728 killed, 8,012 wounded, 959 missing. The combined toll of nearly 24,000 exceeded all previous American battles put togethe...

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]]> Sun, 22 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/n/1/p/battle-of-shiloh-wp/dn1p-battle-of-shiloh-a-nation-counts-its-dead.mp3 0:06 5 full Battle of Shiloh: The General Who Fought https://qualla.com/battle-of-shiloh/ Photo credit Unknown photographer, Public domain. Grant became the target of savage criticism. A newspaper account by Whitelaw Reid, written under a pen name and based largely on testimony from deserters, claimed Union soldiers had been bayoneted in their tents -- a falsehood that stuck. Politicians from Ohio and Iowa, whose con...

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