Shiloh: Grants Trial in the West

###Until April 6, 1862, General Grants ascendency in the Union Army had been relatively uneventful. The few battles he directed had been won without much test of his mettle. But on the dawn of that fateful Sunday, he found the 45,000 men under his command pressed against the Tennessee River at Pittsburg Landing, caught in a surprise attack by Confederate General Johnston and his Army of the Mississippi. Thus began the Battle of Shiloh, two murderous days that would be Grants first real trial by ...