Shiloh, TN news and local guide

In the spring of 1862 Union General Ulysses S. Grant, headquartered at Savannah, gathered his army at Pittsburg Landing, where riverboats could bring supplies. His troops arrived on April 3, set up their main base on a plateau west of the river and placed forward camps two miles inland near Shiloh Meeting House, preparing to attack General Albert Sidney Johnston's Confederates at Corinth, Mississippi, about 22 miles away. On the morning of April 6, Johnston surprised Grant's army, routing most of the forward camps and driving the rest toward the river, but several Union units held a line along the plateau. Johnston was struck by a bullet and died, General P. G. T. Beauregard took command, and that night gunboats and General Don Carlos Buell's army arrived. The next day a Union counterattack drove the Confederates from the field. Sources The Historical Marker Database: Pickwick Landing (Tennessee Civil War Trails) Wikipedia: Shiloh, Hardin County, Tennessee