Essentials of United States history . 288 ESSENTIALS OF UNITED STATES HISTORY New Madrid, Island Number Ten, and Fort Pillow on theMississippi surrendered. 374. The Battle of Shiloh. — Recovering from theirdefeats, the Confederates soon gathered a large force nearCorinth, a place in Mississippi on the main line of railroadeast from Memphis and a few miles west of the TennesseeRiver. The Union forces advanced up the Tennessee Riverin transports to Pittsburg Landing. There they disem-barked and marched forward to attack the Southern armv was under the command of General A. F
Essentials of United States history . 288 ESSENTIALS OF UNITED STATES HISTORY New Madrid, Island Number Ten, and Fort Pillow on theMississippi surrendered. 374. The Battle of Shiloh. — Recovering from theirdefeats, the Confederates soon gathered a large force nearCorinth, a place in Mississippi on the main line of railroadeast from Memphis and a few miles west of the TennesseeRiver. The Union forces advanced up the Tennessee Riverin transports to Pittsburg Landing. There they disem-barked and marched forward to attack the Southern armv was under the command of General A. Field of Operations in the West. Johnston and General Beauregard. The two wings werein charge of Generals Bragg and Polk. These able andexperienced generals, at the head of a force of between fortythousand and fifty thousand men, were determined to crushGrants army before it could be reenforced by General battle occurred on Sunday. April 6, and was foughtwith great fury. That afternoon General Johnston was killedand the command devolved on Beauregard. Grants armywas driven back to Pittsburg Landing, fighting stubbornlyand suffering large losses. This days battle was a decided LINCOLNS FIRST ADMINISTRATION (1861-1865) 289
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