USA HISTORY

Which battle fought in TN during April 1862 convinced North and South that the war would be long and bloody?

(A) ** Shiloh

(B) Atlanta

(C) Chickamauga

(D) Yorktown

Concept note-1: -Hardin County, TN | Apr 6-7, 1862. The Battle of Shiloh, also known as the Battle of Pittsburg Landing, allowed Union troops to penetrate the Confederate interior. The carnage was unprecedented, with the human toll being the greatest of any war on the American continent up to that date.

Concept note-2: -The Battle of Shiloh (also known as the Battle of Pittsburgh Landing) was a crucial victory for the Union during the Civil War. On April 7, 1862, the Civil War’s Battle of Shiloh ended with a United States (Union) victory over Confederate forces in Pittsburg Landing, Tennessee.

Concept note-3: -General Albert Sidney Johnston, commander of Confederate forces in the Western Theater, hoped to defeat Union major general Ulysses S. Grant’s Army of the Tennessee before it could be reinforced by Maj. Gen. Don Carlos Buell’s Army of the Ohio, which was marching from Nashville.

Concept note-4: -Two Union armies combined to defeat the Confederate Army of Mississippi. Major General Ulysses S. Grant was the Union commander, while General Albert Sidney Johnston was the Confederate commander.