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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

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Shiloh National Military Park, Tennessee: National Park Service Historical Handbook Series No. 10

Shiloh National Military Park, Tennessee: National Park Service Historical Handbook Series No. 10

Dillahunty, Albert

Paperback

Series: National Park Service Historic Handbook, Book 10

Armed ForcesCivil War Period (1850-1877)General World History

ISBN10: 1582187819
ISBN13: 9781582187815
Publisher: Digital Scanning Inc
Published: Mar 11 2011
Pages: 58
Weight: 0.22
Height: 0.14 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

SHILOH NATIONAL MILITARY PARK preserves the scene of the first great battle in the West of the War Between the States. In this 2-day battle, April 6 and 7, 1862, both the Union and Confederate Armies suffered heavy casualties, bringing home the horrors of war to the North and South alike. Nearly 24,000 were killed, wounded, or reported missing a number equal to more than one-fifth of the combined Union and Confederate Armies engaged in the battle. By their failure to destroy the Federal Armies at Shiloh the Confederates were forced to return to Corinth, Miss., relinquishing all hold upon West Tennessee, except a few forts on the Mississippi which were soon to be wrested from them. Their failure at Shiloh foreshadowed the loss of the Memphis and Charleston Railroad, the South's vital line of communication between Chattanooga and the Mississippi. After the fall of Memphis, early in June, the Federals were in position to strike at Vicksburg, the conquest of which would give them control of the Mississippi and split the Confederacy in two.

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