Scourge of War Boards

<r>We now move back to the far left, behind the Peach Orchard to the Bloody Pond. Actually I prefer to call it "The Bloody Puddle", because the thing is only about 6 or 8 inches deep in the center. You won't even get your knees wet. It's just a stagnant swamp hole, probably prone to breeding mosquit...

<r>Having covered the most brutal combat of the day, we move to the right where the combat was equally hard, if longer distanced than the brutal struggle for the wood.<br/> <br/> We move to the sunken road behind the Duncan Field. The Duncan Field is big, it also has a low ridge running right throug...

<r>There is a reddit site dedicated to colorization of old photos like that. They have a bunch, some of the best ones are Lee on the steps of Arlington a week after the war. Another is one of Grants famous pictures, but with the colorization you can tell that he had been drinking pretty heavily eith...

<r>Okay.<br/> <br/> Now we move to the center to the hellish combat of the Oak Thicket of the Hornet's Nest. The combat here ranks up there with Little Round Top and The Bloody Lane. In fact, one of the oddest things is that, as I will show you, the terrain in front of the sunken road through Duncan...

<r>We must now come to the sad tale of the death of General Albert Sydney Johnston. The man Jefferson Davis said "If Johnston isn't a General, then we have no General."<br/> <br/> Lee was still an obscure nobody holding the fort at Harper's Ferry. Johnston was the Confederacy's First Great Hope. He ...

<r>Now we move to the meat and potatoes of Shiloh. The stunning all day resistance by the remnants of Prentiss' Division in the Hornets Nest/Peach Orchard/Bloody Pond sector!<br/> <br/> The Hornet's Nest is divided into 3 areas. <br/> <br/> The left flank would be the Peach Orchard, the section of s...

<r>Now we move to the far left of the battlefield where Stuart's Brigade consisting of two Ohio regiments and an Illinois regiment attempted the hold the line, but were driven back into the woods. One regiment fled to the river where it was picked up by a riverboat. The other two<br/> <br/> From Ree...

<r>We now move back to Sherman's Second Line of Defense at Woolfe's Field. This field changed hands several times throughout the day.<br/> <br/> From Reed:<br/> <br/> "This brigade of four regiments was encamped(2nd Brigade, 4 Div), with its left in Woolf Field, in the following order of regiments f...

<r>We now move back up the Sherman road a half mile or so to the Shiloh Church. The church was surrounded by tents. There was some battle here, but most of the men fled smartly to the north another half mile where Sherman set up his first real defensive line on the far right at Woolfe's Field, which...

<r>Here now we move to Spain's Field. The field lies 300 yards South of Prentiss' Camps. Here Prentiss' Second Brigade formed up in double line formation and took up a defensive position on a solid rise just above the woodline to the South where Chalmers and Gladden were marching out of, a massive f...