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Attack at Daylight and Whip Them: The Battle of Shiloh, April 6-7, 1862 (Emerging Civil War Series)

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“Attack at daylight and whip them—that was once the Confederate plan At the morning of April 6, 1862. The unsuspecting Union Army of the Tennessee, commanded by Major General Ulysses S. Grant, had gathered At the banks of its namesake river at a spot referred to as Pittsburg Landing, in a position to strike deep into the heart of Tennessee Confederates, commanded by General Albert Sidney Johnston. Johnston’s troops were reeling from setbacks earlier in the year and had made up our minds to reverse their fortunes by taking the fight to the Federals.

Johnston planned to attack them at daylight and drive them into the river.

A brutal day of fighting ensued, unprecedented in its horror—the devil’s own day, one union officer admitted. Confederates needed just one final push.

Grant didn’t take a seat and stay up for that assault, though. He gathered reinforcements and planned a counteroffensive. At the morning of April 7, he intended to attack at daylight and whip them.

The bloodshed that resulted from the two-day battle exceeded anything The united states had ever known in its history.

Historian Greg Mertz grew up At the Shiloh battlefield, climbing its trails and exploring its fields. Attack at Daylight and Whip Them taps into five decades of intimate familiarity with a battle that rewrote The united states’s notions of war.”

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