Contested in Hardin County, this battle took its more common name from a church around which many of the Union soldiers were flanked.  
Contested in Hardin County, this battle took its more common name from a church around which many of the Union soldiers were flanked.  Beginning with William Hardee's surprise attack, this engagement's first day saw Lew Wallace send his division in the wrong direction, as well as the death of Albert Sydney Johnston. Union lines at the Hornet's Nest prevented an attack under P.G.T. Beauregard until the second day, which ended in a Confederate retreat to Corinth. The shores of the Tennessee River were the site of U.S. Grant's victory at, for 10 points, what April 1862 battle known in the north as Pittsburg Landing.
Contested in Hardin County, this battle took its more common name from a church around which many of the Union soldiers were flanked.  
Battle of Shiloh [accept Battle of Pittsburg Landing on early buzz]