February will be a month that sees Johnston pulling back from his positions in Kentucky and the tacit surrendering of Fort Donelson (Feb 15, 1862) and his consolidation of forces at Corinth, Ms.įor the soldiers, the war was daily toil and duty in all weather. While this may seem like boring historical minutia, the results of all of these moves bring about one of the war’s largest battles up to that time. Johnston abandons Bowling Green, KY and sends 16,000 of his force to Fort Donelson against the approach of a Union army. We are approaching several of those anniversaries again, when Confederate General A.S. Those events involved soldiers and generals and impacted civilians everywhere, not just those who were left in the wake of the passing of the armies to and fro, but those who sent men into those armies. There are hundreds of events that occurred 151 years ago that colluded to bring us the battle that took place at Pittsburg Landing, Tennessee around a small Methodist Church called Shiloh. As a historian, I add the minutia of daily life and the movements of those armies into the overall understanding of the why, beyond the casualty figures. We boil down a conflict into events and then study their meaning in the overall fabric of time. On this other date this army and that army … you get the picture. One army was the tactical or strategic victor. This army met this other army at this location, a battle ensued and there were x number of casualties. War in the history books is a punctuated affair. 151 years ago, thousands of lives were changed forever
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