Eye Don't Know, Do You? Battle Question

[JPK Huson 1863]

OK, I do or wouldn't be able to answer. Not at all good with this except maybe one or two battles, even then if anyone picked a specific, smaller action could get stumped.

Which battle is this clipping from?

 

[nextcity]

Shiloh

 

[PeterT]

Shiloh

I agree. I think it is Shiloh too.

 

[phil1861]

Very definately Shiloh. Buell, bank of a river, Ohio regiments.

 

[jackt62]

Evidence points to Shiloh. General Nelson of Buell's command ferrying over the river and Buell arriving in the PM

 

[JPK Huson 1863]

HOLY gee whiz, you guys are amazing. OK Phil, unsurprising given the book- it's just that members here have this knowledge which sometimes makes it difficult to log in every day without wearing a disguise. Could get rid of the blond hair. Is that a chicken/egg thing?

Thanks for these, hope it wasn't so sophomoric as to border on silly, will try to find more obscure information or a less well known battle, REALLY thanks so much for the input- Shiloh continues to elude me as far as sequence, the flow of power, where our gunboats made a difference, which controversies are ' real '- there's a list. JPK's brother Samuel Huson was killed there, has to be one of the 14 ( ? ) unidentified Illinois soldiers buried there although we have a document showing he was buried on the field by his best friend and messmates. 14th Illinois- killed in the first wave through the camps that morning.

 

[phil1861]

It helped that my Philip character being in Nelson's division, Ammen's brigade with the 36th Indiana and 6th Ohio and the reports of the 24th Ohio in how they crossed the river and onto shore as the final push was happening toward the landing by the Confederates.

 

[JPK Huson 1863]

It helped that my Philip character being in Nelson's division, Ammen's brigade with the 36th Indiana and 6th Ohio and the reports of the 24th Ohio in how they crossed the river and onto shore as the final push was happening toward the landing by the Confederates.

OH of course! Shiloh took me awhile and am still getting a grip on it- to me, one of the tougher battles for beginners trying to wrap their head around military movements. Almost impossible ( for me, am guessing not at all tough for people who understand military stuff ) without one of those maps with blue and red lines, by the hour, AND the river AND the gunboats.

 

[DixieRifles]

REALLY thanks so much for the input- Shiloh continues to elude me as far as sequence, the flow of power, where our gunboats made a difference, which controversies are ' real '- there's a list.

I'm reading "Shiloh: Conquor or Perish" and it is good book to study this battle. Tim Smith claims it is the only book to delve into the details of Day #2. He starts by explaining the terrain and the creeks and ravines that constrain the troop movement into terrain shaped like a Hour Glass. After you see and understand that, then troop movement is easily understood.