The Shiloh Campaign
Subtitle: March - April 1862
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: Da Capo
Published: April 15, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 236
ISBN-13: 9780306812590
Subjects: American history: c 1800 to c 1900; Battles & campaigns; Civil war; Military History - U.S. Civil War; History; History - Military / War; History: American; USA; Military - United States; United States - Civil War; History / United States / Civil War Period (1850-1877); History-Military - United States; Military - Other
First sentence: At dawn on 6 April 1862, Confederate troops under Gen. Albert Sidney Johnston came pouring out of the woods near Pittsburg Landing, Tennessee, to assault the sleepy camps of Maj. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant's Union Army of the Tennessee in one of the greatest surprise attacks in all of military history.