Grant's Last Line

The first day of fighting was disastrous for General Grant's Union Army of the Tennessee as Confederates surprised many Federals in their tents at daybreak, hastily formed lines of defense broke, casualties multiplied, more than 2,000 men surrendered, and late reinforcements could not prevent Grant's army from falling back to this high ground as its last line. That evening Union reinforcements arrived, and on the second day fortunes reversed as Grant's desperate last line became a strong attack position and the bolstered Union forces pushed the Confederates back to the southwestern end of the battlefield near Shiloh Church.

Shiloh, Tennessee · United States