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battle on the west side of the battlefield. we ve left prentiss s camp where they were overrun. johnston making the decision he had turned the union left at that point. he s been alerted to the fact he does have some troops over on his right that he has to be concerned about. but we ve moved over to shiloh branch below shiloh church, which means we re roughly three-quarters of a mile from where we last were on the eastern corinth road. and the interesting thing is when you stand here well, i hope that the visitors really key up on it because you see three position tablets here at the double bridges here below the church, and there was a double bridge in place. you have two branches of shiloh branch coming to a junk tur here on the west side of the road. sherman s camps were on the other side. the interesting thing is when you stand here, i hope that visitors really key up on it. i hope they pick up on some salient point. you re dealing with three different bury garages. pat
they were mounted who road away from the federals after they fired at them. the combat control was under the command of major james powell who threw the men into a skirmish form mags towards the lotion where we re now standing. when the elements of the skirmish line broke out here, they encountered infantry picket posts, seven man details who fired off shots at the federals and retired. just the gray light of dawn breaking, very quiet morning except for the sudden eruption of the few muskets being fired, a few shouts being heard across the landscape, federal officers giving orders and what all, when in the far distance, the union troops would have picked up in the darkness, darker forms here at the junction of the woods. and those darker forms were the main picket front of hardee s corps, they were standing there in formation. the federals slowly advance and hardcastle unleashes a massive volley upon them and the battle of shiloh erupts and the fight is engaged. the con feder
we re dealing with 8:00 basically starting with clayburn, general time frame, through 9:00 and beyond. so we have an hour s point of time when these three brigades come into battle here. first clayburn, then anderson, then johnston. now the thing is, they re all occupying the same space that s only big enough for one brigade, and they re doing it all at the same point in time, relatively the same point in time, because clayburn attacks and is repulsed but continues to fight on this front. anderson comes in to play along the same line, slams into clayburn s men and through clayburn s men and the same thing happens. he attacks, is repulsed, and continues to do battle. and then on top of that will be johnston s brigade and slightly to our east is robert russell s brigade, also of poke s corps, combined. they re about the size of clayburn and anderson s brigade, and so in close proximity they re coming into the same landscape, the same sector of the battlefield here in shiloh bra
lulled into a sense of safety, everything was all secure. at lease the high command. there were men in the ranks, there were officers in the ranks who were of different opinion. one of them was a brigade commander under benjamin prentice, colonel everett peabody. he violates orders and orders out a combat reconnaissance because he s fearful that there s something in front of them based on the way he s reading intelligence, and his brigade is not going to be caught unawares, and he sends out a combat reconnaissance. did peabody believe that the entire confederate army is out there? probably not. but he knew something was out there and he wanted more intelligence. so he didn t tell he was sending out a combat control, he didn t tell sherman, whose force would have to march across his front, to perform its patrol. he didn t tell him he was sending it out. so nobody knew that federal force, ruffle five companies of infantry at 3:00 in the morning on april the 6th started marching
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