Battle of Shiloh
Tennessee 1862 confrontation
The Battle of Shiloh was a major engagement of the American Civil War, fought April 6-7, 1862, in southwestern Tennessee.
Confederate forces surprised Union troops under Ulysses S.
Grant near Shiloh Church, but reinforcements arrived overnight and the Union counterattacked, forcing a Confederate retreat.
The battle's unprecedented casualties—over 23,000 combined—shocked both sides and foreshadowed the war's brutal scale.
- Tennessee RiverSoutheastern US river
- Civil WarCountrymen fighting countrymen
- surprise attackUnanticipated offensive strike
- first dayInitial day of something
- flanking maneuversAttacks targeting enemy sides
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Battle of ShilohTreaty of Versailles
1919 settlement ending WWI
armistice · peace conference · ceasefire · reconciliation · peacetime