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significance, and then following stacey will be someone else who used to walk those fields of shiloh on a regular basis when he was a ranger at the battlefield and thats dr. tim smith. tim is now a professor at the university of tennessee martin. and tim is also a prolific author on the civil war, particularly civil war preservation and then in particular shiloh itself. i brought along several different tim smith books, but the one im going to promote right now is the one hes just done...

put that in your bucket list. you want to get that one. i enjoyed one some 20 years ago. and stacey brings a passion and knowledge of shiloh that no one can really match. and if you havent bought your copy yet, this is the last plug of the day. the shiloh film that embodies staceys passion and scholarship about the battle is, of course, available here today at the event. and is being shown, i guess, as we speak at the visitors center at the battlefield. stacey will go first and sort of...

the most violent and socially important crossroads in the american experience. thank you. [ applause ] >> good afternoon. i fully understand that im the last speaker between you and lunch. [ laughter ] so i will be brief. what i want to talk about, though, is what paul harvey would call the rest of the story. we heard a lot about the battle itself. the two day battle, weve had our panel discussion and stacey taking us through the maps but theres a lot more to the history of shiloh than...

confederate army. why? because we have such new accounts as that of dudley hayden whose an aide-de-camp on the staff of albert sydney johnston. he and heap writes writes in a j published in a newspaper that has come to light. the fact that the plan per se. he is writing, you know the day before the battle, the plan was, essentially -- that -- that they had a right-wing and a left wing. and this is in contrast to -- to thomas jordan and -- and some of the other people -- that -- that we...

were dealing with 8:00 basically starting with clayburn, general time frame, through 9:00 and beyond. so we have an hours point of time when these three brigades come into battle here. first clayburn, then anderson, then johnston. now the thing is, theyre all occupying the same space thats only big enough for one brigade, and theyre doing it all at the same point in time, relatively the same point in time, because clayburn attacks and is repulsed but continues to fight on this front. a...

another month, even march of 1862, this would have been a busy location. pittsburg landing in the tennessee river, hardin county. the area was being used as a base of operations by the united states army. the army that disembarked here was under the command of ulysses s. grant. the reason the army was in the area was western confederate railroads, princically the memphis charleston line that linked chattanooga eastward, extremely important railroad to the confederate states of america....

the calf valley, one of the horses is falling and the rider is being thrown to the ground and is going to be tramped to death. shady used his own face for the fallen rider, which was somewhat symbolic. doing these magnificent bronzes took years and the toll on him. they were going to dedicate the monument in 1922, about the same time that the lincoln memorial was dedicated. it was going to be us grants 100th birthday and shradey died two weeks before its 100th birthday. he literally wa...

no longer is it co-mingling of individual brigades, but a bigger problem is theyre not brigades even from the same corps, meaning theyre not even from the same organization within the confederate army. theyre from a different organization of the confederate army and they dont know each other from adam in many respects because that organization at corinth, remember, was a concentration of troops from the gulf coast, troops that had fallen back from kentucky, troops that were coming over...

branch, engaging the same federal troops, which is shermans division supported by brigade from mclernens division and an extra battery from mclernen was holding the shiloh ridge and meeting the successive attacks and defeating them in detail. so if you just think about that issue of co-mingling of the confederate commands. no longer is it co-mingling of individual brigades, but a bigger problem is theyre not brigades even from the same corps, meaning theyre not even from the same organ...

almost 24 thousand casualties making it the bloodiest battle to that point in u.s. history. american history tv visited shiloh park where the ranger gave us a tour of the battlefield. >> if you had been standing here in april of 1862, take you back another month, ever march of 1862, this would have been a busy location. pittsburg landing in the tennessee river, hardin county. the area was being used as a base of operations by the united states army. the army that disembarked here was u...