Our primary reason for staying at a resort near Hornsby, Tennessee is because it is close to the battlefield at Shiloh. Today we paid homage to the dead who are buried there and to find out what happened. From April 6-7, 1862 the woods of South Tennessee witnessed the greatest blood bath in American History to that date, over 24,000 casualties. The reason for this was a small town twenty miles south called Corinth, Mississippi. This was the crossroads of two major railroads and was a major target for the Union forces. Grant, commander of the Army of Tennessee, was given orders by Gen. Halleck not to engage the enemy until reinforcements under Gen. Buell, commander of the Army of Ohio. His men were encamped near a small church… Continue reading
