Battle of Shiloh 1862 - American Civil War DOCUMENTARY

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  @KingsandGenerals · 1 year ago · pinned

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  @alexiaNBC · 1 year ago

  William T. Sherman: Well, Grant, we&apos;ve had the devil&apos;s own day, haven&apos;t we?<br>U.S. Grant: Yes... lick&apos;em tomorrow, though.

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  @ronjohnson6916 · 1 year ago

  This is a theme through the war. Confederate armies try to fall on an isolated piece of a much larger federal army and destroy it. Thing is that Civil War armies were just plain hard to destroy. Generally speaking even a decisive victory left the winner too beat up to pursue vigorously.

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  @TheReaperEagle · 1 year ago (edited)

  The Writer Here: As always I&apos;ll answer any questions in this thread.<br>Onto the side stories that didn&apos;t make it in:<br>1) Davis&apos; defense of Albert Sydney Johnston was &quot;if Sidney Johnston is not a general, we had better give up the war, for we have no general.&quot;<br><br>2) Henry Halleck was known as &quot;Old Brains&quot;, which was both positive and negative. He was an administrator and a scholar who&apos;d never done field work but had reorganized and modernized much of the US Army&apos;s administration and training. These qualities would be on full display during the war.<br><br>3) While there&apos;s no evidence that his drinking affected his leadership at <i>any</i> point during or after the war, Grant was medically an alcoholic. He could go months without touching a drop, but if the cravings got too strong and he started drinking he struggled to stop. Grant was deeply ashamed of this and fought it his whole life. His chief of staff John A. Rawlins was incredibly vigilant to the point of obsessive about keeping alcohol away from him while on campaign, at Grant&apos;s wife Julia&apos;s insistence. Even when he was allowed a drink during wartime lulls, Rawlins allegedly grabbed bottles out of Grant&apos;s hand and threw them in the fire if he started drinking too much.<br><br>4) Despite all the times that Halleck used him in his intrigues, Grant never seems to have regarded him as anything other than an ally and friend. Grant always tried (and frequently only) to see the best in people. This naivete would come back to haunt him during his presidency.<br><br>5) Don Carlos Buell was arguably worse than George McClellan about foot dragging and refusing to fight. McClellan had the excuses that 1) Pinkerton&apos;s intelligence reports inflated enemy numbers and 2) he had more responsibilities as general-in-chief. Buell only had his department to worry about and more accurate intelligence, yet he missed many chances to defeat his enemies through undue caution and a desire to not actually destroy the Confederacy.<br><br>6) For those unfamiliar with wild forests: there&apos;s a certain level of natural noise that you expect in a woodland from wildlife being wildlife and the trees swaying. If the volume is higher or lower than the natural level something&apos;s wrong. If the woods are silent, LEAVE! IMMEDIATELY! Peabody had realized that the natural noises were gone, but there was still plenty of noise coming from the trees. That&apos;s a <i>really</i> bad sign.<br><br>7) It&apos;s not clear exactly when Grant arrived at Pittsburg Landing. The earliest estimates I know about put him arriving just as the first panicked recruits arrived just after 9. The latest put him around 10 as entire units were breaking and streaming back. I found the earlier estimates more credible.<br><br>8) The road that&apos;s marked as The Sunken Road today isn&apos;t very sunken. It&apos;s not clear if it being sunken at all was a myth to begin with or if the battle and subsequent years have smoothed out the terrain.<br><br>9) Another problem for the Confederates was looting. The soldiers were hungry and poorly equipped, so as they overran Union camps, they stopped to eat their opponent&apos;s unfinished breakfasts and steal their stuff. Johnston rebuked and tried to stop them, only to realize that he was humiliating his soldiers. Therefore, he dramatically picked up a tin cup, declared that it was his share of the spoils, and used it to direct the battle. He was still carrying it when he died.<br><br>10) Much like Nathaniel Lyon, AS Johnston is one of the Civil War&apos;s great What Ifs. <br><br>11) Grant believed that Wallace had dragged his feet getting to the battle on purpose and removed him from his division post-battle. The various account of what actually happened are contradictory, so I don&apos;t know what really happened. However, Wallace maintained and eventually convinced Grant that his lateness was neither on purpose nor his fault.<br><br>12) Everyone who set foot in Corinth, Mississippi during June 1862 was sick with one of several diseases within a few days, Grant, Sherman, and Halleck included. Beauregard put himself on sick leave for several months, which is why Davis replaced him.<br><br>13) Bragg should never have commanded an army. The problem with him was, to mix nerddoms, that he was a stereotypical Lawful Stupid Paladin. His integrity was absolute and utterly inflexible, duty was all, and everyone around him had to be as immaculate as him. That nobody could do this, even had they been willing to, never penetrated his skull. He was always surprised when orders weren&apos;t followed, and he did nothing but make enemies. His skillset and complete incorruptibility were far better suited to being quartermaster than a field officer.<br><br>14) Price was supposed to slip around Grant and march on either Memphis or Nashville to support Bragg. That this never happened contributed to the Kentucky invasions failure.<br><br>15) I was going to cover the Battle of Perryville in more detail, but every attempt to write it devolved into tirades against Buell, Smith, and Bragg. I don&apos;t apologize for that.<br><br>16) Rosecrans&apos; best friend and chief of staff Julius Peter Garesché was decapitated by a cannonball early in the fighting, riding alongside Rosecrans. He spent the whole day covered in Garesché&apos;s brains and added blood from many more soldiers as he rode about, personally directing them.

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  @Zedcock · 1 year ago (edited)

  My great grandfather x3 was shot in the head and neck in this battle, he survived but was blind in one eye and lost most of his teeth on one side but lived until age of 97. He got rich in the texas oil boom and had his first kid aged 63.

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  @omshah8529 · 1 year ago

  The irony of Shiloh of its meaning and the battle.

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  @aaroncabatingan5238 · 1 year ago

  Halleck and Grant&apos;s one-sided rivalry is interesting. Halleck sees Grant as a threat, but he also protects him.<br><br>That&apos;s very rare to see.

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  @fettfan91 · 1 year ago

  Sherman not believing the attack was real until his orderly died in front of him is absolutely brutal.

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  @CoolPast-history · 1 year ago

  Man, that was pure chaos — those guys were fighting like it was their last shot

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  @Roronoa79 · 1 year ago (edited)

  Lew Wallace, native Hoosier, would later go on to write Ben Hur, a novel heavily influenced by his experiences in the war.

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  @chaddusmaximus4938 · 1 year ago

  Where the Eastern Theatre was a clownshow for the Union, it was the exact opposite in the Western Theatre, where the only notable loss the Union had was at Chickamauga.

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  @whoeverfromwherever · 1 year ago

  Served aboard USS Shiloh CG-67. <br>It&apos;s nice to see a video about the battle.

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