Those Who Fought: Average age of soldiers: 18-30 year Those Who Fought: Average age of soldiers: 18-30 year. Mostly farmers African Americans were eventually allowed to join Native Americans fought on both sides

The Monitor vs. The Merrimack Developed by the Confederate’s to destroy the Union blockade of the south Featured ten guns and a sloping roof shaped deck. The Monitor The Union’s Ironclad Ship of War. Featured two guns on a revolving turret Faster and more maneuverable than the Merrimack

The Battle of Shiloh

Battle of Shiloh Union: Major General Ulysses S. Grant , Major General Don Carlos Buell General William Tecumseh Sherman Confederate: General Albert Sidney Johnston General P.G.T. Beauregard The Battle of Shiloh begins: On the morning of April 6, 1862, Location: around Pittsburg Landing in Tennesse, near a little whitewashed church known as Shiloh - Shiloh is a Hebrew word meaning "place of peace." Fact: One of the bloodiest battle of the Civil War

Battle of Shiloh 1862 Invasion of the Heartland of the South Grant’s Union army was camped along the Tennessee River just north of the Mississippi border Waiting to launch an invasion of the heartland of the South until General Carlos Buell arrived with his army Grant had been on the Tennessee waiting for Buell for about a month Johnston’s Surprise Offensive Confederate General Sydney Johnston launches a surprise attack on April 6th before Buell arrived Initially Union troops are pushed back toward the Tennessee River Union forces stiffen near Shiloh Church This thickly wooded area where fighting was the most fierce was known as the “Hornets Nest”

III. Downfall of Confederate Victory Fighting subsided at nightfall with Confederate domination but exhausted Confederate General Sydney Johnston had been shot in the leg and killed. Union General Carlos Buell and his army arrived during the night to reinforce Grant’s army This added 22, 500 fresh Union soldiers to the fight. IV. Death and Carnage Union Casualties – 13,046 Confederate Casualties – 10,699 Total Casualties – approximately 24,000 men dead Grant described the scene after the battle as follows, “it would have been possible to walk across the clearing in any direction stepping on dead bodies without a foot touching the ground.”