Shiloh Principle Players

Let's meet the principles involved in the Battle of Shiloh / Pittsburg Landing:

For the Union:

In command and responsible for the battle:

Major General Ulysses S. Grant

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And Grant's most loyal Lieutenant and friend:

Brig. General William T. Sherman

 

 

While his late-arriving forces helped tips the odds in the Federals' favor on 07 April 1862:

Maj. General Don Carlos Buell

For the Confederates: 

Their leader as the battle began on 06 April 1862 and who was shot during during the day:

General Albert Sidney Johnston

After his untimely death, the Confederate forces would be left in the hands of this man:

General P. G. T. Beauregard

There were others who played a role, but it is beyond the time and capacity of this historian to describe all of the events that occurred on the fateful days of April 6th and 7th in 1862.