A Bloody Reckoning: The Legacy of the Battle of Shiloh
In April 1862, Confederate forces surprised Union forces at Pittsburg Landing, a small steamboat docking on the Tennessee River. The two armies faced off for control of the all-important Mississippi Valley knowing that victory could determine the outcome of the Civil War. The violent clash, which came to be known as the Battle of Shiloh, ended with 23,746 dead or wounded, forcing the citizens of a divided nation to reckon with the prospect of a war that was longer and bloodier than they had ever imagined. Ellen Snyder-Grenier, principal of REW & Co, is currently working for the National Park Service’s Shiloh National Military Park, and will guide us through this moment in American history.
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