Tim McNeese wrote the book, “Civil War Battles”. He is an associate professor of histo-ry at York College in Nebraska. This is his seventeenth year of college instruction. He has several degrees which include, associate’s- York College, bachelor’s- Harding University and Southwest Missouri State, master’s- Southwest Missouri State. Tim has published at least eighty to one hundred books and educational materials over the past twenty years. He was previewed on the History Channel, Risk Takers, and History Makers. The Battle of Shiloh took place during the time period of, April sixth through April sev-enth of 1862. Ulysses S. Grant’s men were waiting at Pittsburg Landing and the men were fighting for control of Tennessee. Before the battle…show more content… While these men were camping out waiting for someone to attack, the men were struggling with illnesses brought by the wet spring weather. When the battle had arrived Grant’s men were not in defensive positions, they were all scattered to be near to necessary firewood and water. All troops were divided onto divisions to find and to be near certain things like firewood and water. They were all in little camps. On the beginning of Sunday, April 6th confederate troops were sent to face their enemy. The landscape was difficult to fight on; it was rugged, uneven, and covered with woods. All men in the Battle of Shiloh fought for twelve hours day and night. The com-mander in chief moved along horseback ordering troops to fill in gaps and counter attacks. The air was shattered by rifles and cannon shots while General Grant was nine miles away from the battle and his troops. The whole country was at war on a scale that had not yet taken place be-tween the northern and southern countries. During the retreat of the north, thousands of confed-erate and rebel soldiers were taking their first taste of combat and each one of them was terror-ized. Five thousand Union soldiers had retreated back to the Tennessee River underneath a
