After the February 1862 Union victories at Forts Henry and Donelson, Gen. Don Carlos Buell’s army occupied Nashville while Gen. Ulysses S. Grant’s army moved to Pittsburg Landing on the Tennessee River, and together they planned to attack the rail center of Corinth, Mississippi. Instead, on April 6, Confederate Gen. Albert Sidney Johnston struck first at Shiloh, winning a near victory on the first day before being killed; on the second day, Grant’s counterattack forced the Confederates back to Corinth, in the war’s bloodiest battle to that date, with almost 24,000 killed, wounded, or missing. By early March 1862, after Grant moved his army to southern Tennessee, three units of Federal troops under Gen. Lewis “Lew” Wallace were stationed at Adamsville, Stoney Lonesome, and Crump’s Landing. Wallace earned a reputation for fairness, even among local Confederate supporters, by purchasing fodder and supplies for his men. On April 1, Lt. Charles H. Murray of the 5th Ohio Cavalry reported that a skirmish near Adamsville had gone badly for the Federals after his small detachment came under rapid and severe fire from Confederate double-barreled shotguns; although his men returned the fire with spirit and did not flinch until they had emptied their carbines and pistols, he complained that the Confederates had outgunned them and said his men deserved better weapons. Five days later, when the fighting at Shiloh began, troops from here joined Wallace’s frustrated attempt to reach the battlefield on April 6, but confusing orders and difficult roads delayed his command until 7 p.m., making his alleged dilatoriness one of the war’s early controversies. Wallace’s 11,000 men nevertheless helped turn the tide in favor of the Union on April 7.