Confused orders during this battle resulted in one division moving in from Stony Lonesome and Crump's Landing at noon but not reaching the battlefield until 7 pm the first day. By that time, Lew Wallace's division had missed the action along Lick and Tillman Creeks, and W.H.L. Wallace's maintaining the Union position for six hours at a site nicknamed the "Hornet's Nest." The death of Albert Sidney Johnston and the arrival of Union reinforcements from Buell's Army of the Ohio helped turn the tide, allowing Union forces to push the Confederates back toward Corinth, Missi
Confused orders during this battle resulted in one division moving in from Stony Lonesome and Crump's Landing at noon but not reaching the battlefield until 7 pm the first day. By that time, Lew Wallace's division had missed the action along Lick and Tillman Creeks, and W.H.L. Wallace's maintaining the Union position for six hours at a site nicknamed the "Hornet's Nest." The death of Albert Sidney Johnston and the arrival of Union reinforcements from Buell's Army of the Ohio helped turn the tide, allowing Union forces to push the Confederates back toward Corinth, Mississippi. FTP identify this bloody April 1862 battle during which Grant managed to overcome a surprise Confederate attack in Tennessee at Pittsburg Landing.
Confused orders during this battle resulted in one division moving in from Stony Lonesome and Crump's Landing at noon but not reaching the battlefield until 7 pm the first day.