File:Battle of Shiloh starts V3.png

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English: Map shows the beginning of the Battle of Shiloh in the American Civil War. Around 5:00 AM on April 6, 1862, a patrol led by Union Major James E. Powell found the Confederate Army near a cotton field owned by James J. Fraley. The battle took place in southwestern Tennessee in an area near Shiloh Church and Pittsburg Landing on the Tennessee River. After about one hour, Powell retreated.
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Source This file is a crop from the Wikimedia file "Shiloh Battle April 6 pm.png" by Hal Jespersen. The crop is the bottom half of the file, which shows only the terrain. TwoScarsUp has added the troop positions, arrows, and label. The source for the positions is a map called "The First Contact", on page 147 of the book "Shiloh and the Western Campaign of 1862", by O. Edward Cunningham and edited by Gary D. Joiner and Timothy B. Smith. The source for the Union camps is a 1959 West Point Atlas of American Wars Volume I, image 40 as found in the Library of Congress. V3 corrects a misspelling in V2.
Author Hal Jespersen and TwoScarsUp with thanks to Hog Farm for catching the spelling issue

Battle took place in the USA in southwestern Tennessee near the border with the state of Mississippi.

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Powell found Wood's Third Mississippi Battalion, commanded by Major Aaron Hardcastle, at Fraley Field

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current11:24, 14 September 2022520 × 698 (749 KB)TwoScarsUpUploaded a work by Hal Jespersen and TwoScarsUp with thanks to Hog Farm for catching the spelling issue from This file is a crop from the Wikimedia file "Shiloh Battle April 6 pm.png" by Hal Jespersen. The crop is the bottom half of the file, which shows only the terrain. TwoScarsUp has added the troop positions, arrows, and label. The source for the positions is a map called "The First Contact", on page 147 of the book "Shiloh and the Western Campaign of 1862", by O. Edward Cunningham and ed...

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