Albert Sidney Johnston

General Pierre Gustave Toutant Beauregard following General Albert Sidney Johnston’s death, the intel that was far below par, or the equipment the Confederate soldiers had to use. In reality, it was a combination between all these factors that would seal the Confederates’ fate.

Civil War Battle of Shiloh Scholars still debate the various causes of the U.S. Civil War (1861-1865). However, few disagree that the issue of slavery (and the status assigned to black Americans) had been eroding relations between Northern and Southern states from the first days of American independence, and culminated in actual armed conflict shortly after Abraham Lincoln’s first election to the presidency in 1860 (“The American Civil War,” n.d.). On April 12, 1861 Confederate troops under

Lee, Albert Sidney Johnston, and Woodrow Wilson except John Raegan. The benefit for this option is that John Reagan supported the federal government, renounced secession from the United States and allowed freed slaves to vote. But, Woodrow Wilson being the president

Next, Bragg was promoted to major general and was sent to serve alongside of Albert Sidney Johnston in the war’s Western Theater. Bragg’s first actual combat of the Civil War came in April of 1862 at the Battle of Shiloh in Tennessee. Bragg and the confederates lost this battle, but he was glorified for executing an assault on a Union position called the “Hornets’ Nest.” His partner in fighting, Albert Sidney Johnston died in the fighting on the same day that Bragg was promoted to full general.

were under Union control. 45,000 scattered rebels across southern states gathered in Corinth, Mississippi under the orders of Confederate General Albert Sidney Johnston. Hoping to capture Corinth, General Grant and General Don Carlos Buell (Ohio army's leader) planned to rendezvous their 62,000 soldiers at Pittsburg Landing, Tennessee. General Johnston, upon hearing this information, planned to attack General Grant and his training men at Pittsburgh Landing on April 4th, before the arrival of Buell

INTRODUCTION ‘’Have you ever none that there was a total of 100,369 troops total in the battle of Chattanooga?’’ The battle of Chattanooga was an important battle because the Generals where Ulysses S. Grant and Braxton Bragg. The important thing is that you will learn about the battle of Chattanooga. Some things you will learn about are the Generals, You will also learn all about the battle of Chattanooga, how much people died, missing and captured, and how much where wounded. Generals This battle

took place on April 6ththrough the 7th in 1862 in the southwestern Tennessee region. The Confederate General Albert Sidney Johnston, commander of the confederate forces in the Western Theater wanted to defeat the Union Major General Grant’s army before it could be reinforced by Major General Don Carlos Buell’s Army of Ohio which was marching from Nashville. Confederate General Johnston ordered a surprise attack on Grant’s encampment which was located close to Shiloh Church. Johnston’s troops caught

the Tennessee River. While they were camped deep in Tennessee territory the Confederate Army of Mississippi launched a surprise attack on General Grant and his soldiers. General Albert Sidney Johnston and his second-in-command P. G. T. Beauregard initiated the first assault on the Union troops. Unfortunately General Johnston was mortally wounded. General Beauregard decided not to continue the attack throughout the evening. In the morning Grant’s army having been reinforced

Angela Rodriguez 7th period Battle of Shiloh The Battle of Shiloh started on Sunday, April 6, 1862 and ended Monday, April 7 1862. General Albert Sidney Johnston was there commander and was forced to withdraw from Kentucky. In order to prepare for future offensive operations, he assembled his forces to the Corinth Mississippi. The Union commander, Major General Ulysses S. Grant retreated his army to the Pittsburg Landing spot near the Tennessee River. Grant's army made camp there to

river, where the Confederate Army of Mississippi, under General Albert Sidney Johnston and second-in-command Pierre G. T. Beauregard, launched a surprise attack on Grant's army from its base in Corinth, Mississippi. Johnston was mortally wounded during the fighting; Beauregard, who thus succeeded to command of the army, decided against pressing the attack late in the evening. Overnight Grant was reinforced by one of his own