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It was April of 1862, and the war was just about to enter its second year. The beginning of that year had been a bleak one for the Confederacy.

In February, Fort Henry, Roanoke Island, North Carolina, and Fort Donelson all fell. Now there were invasion routes into "The Old North State," the interior of Tennessee, and the very heartland of the Confederacy.

In the first week of March, Missouri was for all practical purposes lost to the Confederacy thanks to Union victory at Pea Ridge. In the east, more cause for southern concern. The ironclad USS Monitor had revolutionized Naval warfare, and neutralized the Confederacy's CSS Virginia, and George B. McClellan finally stirred from his slows to land 121,000 men on the Virginia peninsula with its sights on Richmond.

Though there had been all these military events, there were still some, North and South, who believed that particularly if the southern capital fell, the conflict would soon end. In fact a year earlier, A.W. Venable of Granville County, North Carolina declared that he would wipe of every drop of blood shed in the war with "this handkerchief of mine." Naive words.

In his most vivid and terrible nightmares, he never dreamed of two days like April 6th and 7th, 1862. Neither had an entire nation. Two horrific days that churned and burned near a river landing and a little Methodist church built for the Prince Of Peace. Two bloody days that served as a national wake-up call; a call that announced the sobering reality of how terrible civil war would truly be.

This is the story of those two days. This is the story of the Battle of Shiloh.

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Narrated by Fred Kiger
Produced by Dan Irving
Published by Third Wheel Media

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Some Characters Mentioned In This Episode:
Don Carlos Buell
Ulysses S. Grant
Willie Lincoln
Albert Sidney Johnston
Pierre Gustave Toutant Beauregard
Braxton Bragg
William H.L. Wallace
William T. Sherman
Benjamin M. Prentiss