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Battle of Shiloh
 
On April 6, 1862 in southwest Tennessee, one of the bloodiest battles in American history was fought.  The Confederate army discovered that Union General Ulysses S. Grant had landed his army on the banks of the Tennessee River.  The South hoped to stop Grant and save Mississippi from invasion.

Moving quickly and launching a surprise attack, Confederate General Albert Sidney Johnston caught Grant offguard and inflicted huge losses to the Union army.  Unfortunately for the South, however, General Johnston, himself, was killed in the fierce fighting.  When night fell, the Union army was reinforced by thousands of fresh troops which launched an all-out assault the following day. 

With nearly 25,000 dead and wounded, the Battle of Shiloh was one of the most deadly in American history

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