The Confederates under Beauregard succeeded in a surprise attack, but on the next day thirteen thousand Union and eleven thousand Confederate soldiers were dead.
General Grant was confident that the Confederates would remain at Corinth, and thus failed to order adequate defenses. No defensive entrenchments, no cavalry patrols, and few picket lines were established. The battle's name came from a simple log meeting house a few miles from the river, and it is ironically named for the Biblical village meaning "place of peace." The Confederates under Beauregard succeeded in a surprise attack, but on the next day thirteen thousand Union and eleven thousand Confederate soldiers were dead. FTP, what was this bloody battle that took place on April 6, 1862?
General Grant was confident that the Confederates would remain at Corinth, and thus failed to order adequate defenses.
Shiloh (prompt on Pittsburgh Landing)