...Student’s name Professor’s name Class May 2, 2009 Introduction Battle of Shiloh is among the significant ones that occurred during the Civil War, but even despite this fact it is relatively poorly studied. It was one of the first massive field battles fought in the Western Campaign and largely predetermined the progress of the further actions. When discussing this battle, several important features have to be named: • Soldiers on both sides were rather inexperienced • Commanders of Federate and Confederate armies made a number of serious mistakes • The entire battle was very poorly controlled on both sides and virtually turned into a massacre • Commanders of the separate brigades had real influence over the battle, and not the commanders of the Armies Due to the features stated above, this battle is rather hard to analyze from the tactical point of view, as little tactic decisions were actually present. The battle just progressed “as it is”, which led to relatively unpredicted results and numerous losses. Importance of the battle In February 1862 the Confederates experienced two serious losses: at Fort Henry and Fort Donelson. Under these conditions the further progress of the Union forces towards the Tennessee River was inevitable. General Grant, the commander of the Union armies was ordered to meet with the army of Ohio and start moving in the southern direction. United armies of Tennessee and Ohio would reach 75000, which would significantly...
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...spotted flying the United States flag, but the hopes that were raised by this were false: the ships were in The battle died away after nightfall, but picked up again the following morning. Again, the barracks caught fire, and the flagstaff was shot away in early afternoon, the flag having to be raised instead on a hastily put together staff on the ramparts. At this point, Louis Wigfall, a former U.S. senator and one of Beauregard’s aides, traveled to the fort, without his commander’s knowledge, to find out whether the fall of the flag was in fact a sign of surrender. Even though this was not Anderson’s idea initially, negotiations between the two men did result in a surrender, and the flag was lowered and replaced with a white sheet. The Battle of Bull Run-This was the first major land battle of the Civil War. General McDowell conceived a fairly elaborate plan to attack the Confederate army commanded by his former West Point classmate, General P.G.T. Beauregard. For his part, Beauregard also had a complex plan. In the end, the plans of both generals fell apart, and actions by individual commanders and small units of soldiers determined the outcome. In the early phase of the battle the Union Army seemed to be beating the disorganized Confederates, but the rebel army managed to rally. General Thomas J. Jackson’s brigade of Virginians helped turn the tide of the battle, and Jackson that day received the everlasting nickname “Stonewall” Jackson. Counterattacks...
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...The Battle of Shiloh was fought on April 6, 1862 and ended on April 7, 1862. The Battle of Shiloh was won by the Union army. It had over 23,000 casualties the battle of Shiloh was the first battle in the Civil War that saw a big amount of dead and suffering. At that time it was the bloodiest battle in American history. In the story The Drummer Boy of Shiloh by Ray Bradbury there was a boy called Joby who ran from home. The night before the battle he was afraid of what could happen the next day he was on the ground trying to hide himself while crying. In line 64 is says “here’s a soldier before the fight.” His general approached him and and asked Joby if he was the drummer boy in which he answered by nodding. The General after a few words...
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...The bloodiest battle of the civil war was the Battle at Shiloh. The Battle lead to 11,000 casualties for the confederates and 13,000 for the Union. The Confederates on night one stole the Unions items from an abandoned camp near the church of Shiloh. This battle occurred in the early part of April. The Battle at Shiloh was written about and was expressed by symbolism the battle had a specific purpose and three leaders,the battle only lasted so long, the main battlefields were far and wide, the battle had a not so clear victory until the end, it played a major effect on the army,and the battle played a big part in the civil war. The story “The Drummer Boy of Shiloh” is based off the bloodiest battle in the Civil war named the Battle of shiloh....
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...The Battle of Shiloh The Battle of Shiloh was the bloodiest fight of the Civil War up to that point. Union and Confederate forces suffered many casualties. Winning this battle was important to securing Tennessee and if the Union won, would be progress in the western theater of the war. Shiloh also served as wake-up call to those in the war to realize how bloody and brutal it would be, as well as how long. Six months before The Battle of Shiloh, Union forces were fighting for the Tennessee and Cumberland rivers. Already, the Union had control of most of the state, including its capitol. General Ulysses S. Grant had victories in February that led Confederate General Albert Sidney Johnson to retreat to Corinth, Mississippi, an important rail...
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...The conflict, resolution, and the characters’ actions in, “The Drummer Boy of Shiloh,” written by Ray Bradbury all contribute to the development of the story’s theme. The theme of, “The Drummer Boy of Shiloh,” is to have courage and be brave in times of fear and doubt. The general of the army told the drum boy of Shiloh, Joby, that he had to be the heart of the army, which meant being brave and having courage for the troops going to battle. Knowing this, Joby, was able to have enough self-motivation to have courage and be brave for the upcoming battle. The story of the Drummer boy of Shiloh begins in April, the night before, The Battle of Shiloh, would start. The Drummer boy is fearful about the upcoming battle; which is the conflict of the story. The author of the story describes the young man...
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...Breaking Gender Roles in Bobbie Mason’s ‘Shiloh’ General criticism on Bobbie Ann Mason’s “Shiloh” shows that gender roles are not followed in the mid 1970’s in America. When Mason was presented with these critics over this issue, she defended the idea of breaking gender stereotypes. An example, the couple Norma Jean and Leroy have switched roles within their marriage. Due to an accident as a truck driver, he is left to stay at home and live as though a wife would live and Norma Jean is left to live as though she was a man. When others are reading “Shiloh”, they may find this odd or unpleasing, but it was necessary due to the circumstances they were presented with. Mason rejects the traditional ideas that married couples should be followed by their...
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...Encapsulating Shiloh – A Requiem Shiloh – A Requiem by Herman Melville, is a powerful poem that serves as an excellent example of the 19th Century. Melville, more known for his novels than his poetry, wrote a series of poems in which he shared his views about the Civil War. The poem is a reminder of what happened, and reminder that that are more than just two sides in a conflict. War is a tragedy that should always be a last resort, if at all. The Civil War is arguably the most defining event in American history. It certainly is in terms of defining what kind of country would exist after the war was over. If the South had won, the country would have been split into a collection of sovereign states, nothing like the indivisible nation Lincoln wanted to maintain. The United States just before the Civil War was a bomb waiting to happen. The North and South were split many topics, but the primary hot button issue was slavery. The war would end that discussion once and for all. The war lasted four years and was by far the bloodiest event in American history. More soldiers died in the Civil War all the wars America has fought in since, combined! Shiloh – A Requiem illustrates the loss and just unimaginable tragedy that was the Civil War, particularly in the Battle of Shiloh. The poem echoes the sentiment of the war, especially afterwards, when many believed the war could have been avoided, and the body count was a needless horror. “Over the field where April rain, Solaced...
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...the first battle of the Civil War. There are varied opinions as to which battle was actually the first battle of the Civil War. The most popular choice is the attack on Fort Sumter; however, this paper will argue that this is not the case. My main argument will be that because of the events leading up to and during the war, the reasons for the war, and the outcome of the war, the Mexican War laid the groundwork for the Civil War and made it inevitable. Although the Mexicans had recognized Texas independence in 1845, they rejected the Lone Star Republic’s claim to the unsettled territory between the Nueces River and the Rio Grande. When the U.S. annexed Texas and assumed its claim to the disputed area, Mexico broke off diplomatic relations and prepared for armed conflict. Just before leaving office in early 1845 President John Tyler, a Virginian seeking to provide a new area into which slavery might expand, secured a joint resolution from Congress annexing Texas to the United States. Upon taking office, President Polk immediately turned to the acquisition of Mexico's northern territories. President Polk sent U.S. troops under the command of General Zachary Taylor to the Rio Grande River in January of 1846. Mexican officials believed that the Texas-Mexico frontier stood one hundred miles to the north, at the Nueces River, and interpreted Polk's move as a deliberate provocation. Mexican troops quickly arrived at the Rio Grande as well, and minor battles broke out between...
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...Abraham Lincoln was elected president and he promised to put an end to slavery. Abraham wanted slavery to stop but knew he had to be careful on what he said. Seven states (South Carolina, Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, and Texas) quickly separated from the Union. The Northerners did not realize they were being serious. They thought they were not actually going to leave the Union in the first place (“North and South”). Northerners were very confident that with just one battle, they would defeat the South. After the Battle of Bull Run, they soon realized that they were wrong. The South ended up winning that battle, leaving the whole North side shocked (Cummings 33). Later, abolitionists disobeyed the law by creating an underground railroad (an escape system for runaway slaves) that led from the South to the North. Some runaway slaves were rescued after they had been found in the North by their owners (Guelzo). Northern victory in the Civil War kept the United states as a whole and ended slavery, the practice that divided the country in the first...
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...In the North they had read about the war through many different ways; letters, newspapers, and poems. A popular newspaper in the North was Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper, after the battle of Shiloh took place one of the Union Soldiers had wrote a poem about the union victory, but it did not surface for everyone to see till about 1866. This poem had given us a look into the battle through his perspective, he had wrote about the day and the surroundings, then about how the night came and people were in pain but everything had paused and others had been praying. The battle of Shiloh was known as one of the bloodiest battles in US history. At the end of the Civil War Herman Melville had published another piece about the surrender of the Confederates written by a soldier. In the poem he states “But these flags given, glad we go To waiting homes with vindicated laws.” Melville’s book of poems called Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War: Civil War Poems, was one of the greatest pieces in early realism. Everyone was glad the war had ended and the great amounts of death and injuries were over, that freedom had been...
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...expected” (Eiselein 30). This uncertainty about the war was transferred into his writing. He traveled to Washington to write an article for The Atlantic and eventually published the essay “Chiefly about War-Matters,” in which he critiqued everything while also satirizing The Atlantic’s pro-war views (Eiselein 33). Besides Hawthorne, most of the northern writers of the nineteenth century supported the war at the beginning. However, the writer’s attitude towards the war began to shift after the battle of Shiloh and the succeeding horrific battles. The harsh realities of the war began to trouble the writers. For example, while reading Emerson’s essay “The Poet” writer Herman Melville wrote skeptical notes within the margin. In response to Emerson’s belief, “the evils of the world are such only to the evil eye,” Melville responded “What does the man mean?” The horrors of the war made it impossible for Melville to agree with Emerson (Eiselein 47). In “Shiloh”, Melville describes the aftermath of a battle, and then states“(What like a...
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...Chhh!!! Boom!!! Chh!! Boom!! The story “The Drummer boy of Shiloh” written by Ray Bradbury was a young boy who was in the middle of a war. I know, I know your’e probably thinking what business do a boy have doing on this battlefield. Well, Joby--the main character of the story--was the drummer boy ; he sets the tone for the men to march into battle. The battle that he was in was the Battle of Shiloh--it was a battle t the western Theater of the American Civil War on April 6-7, 1862. The author captures your mind and take you all the way back to this great historical battle. This specific battle was alsoo known as the battle of Pittsburg Landing. This one historical fiction was my favorite out of all the one’s I have read, because not only is this a great story , it has many symbolic things in it....
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...The Civil War had the largest death toll for any American war, nearly 620,000. The causes of the Civil War was caused by what is to be believed four main things, know as the four S's. The Civil War needed every solider to end it but some were truly amazing like the two presidents and the two generals of the warring sides. The Confederate and Union army had many battles throughout the war and the tide of war changed with each battle but some greatly changed the outcomes. The war's end came slower than it was thought to come and many great things came out of it like the end to slavery and the reconstruction of America. The Civil War commenced in order with the causes, the people who were a big impact, battles, and the results. There were many...
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...Boom! Boom! Bdddd! Do you hear that? All i hear is soldiers marching to a steady beat. The drummer boy of shiloh makes the beat that you hear. He marches the army into battle in April 6, 1862. “The Drummer Boy of Shiloh” a short story by Ray Bradbury. Ray emphasizes the importance of having courage to represent what you want to represent. For example Joby represents the heart of the army. Not just because he’s there. He represents the heart of the army because he is the one that leads them into battle. He makes them feel confident by the beat he plays whether it’s upbeat or downbeat. The drum is what gives the army courage to keep going. It symbolizes the General’s courage when or if the general isn’t there.The drum symbolizes things in my...
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