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Union
Casualties: 13,047
Confederate Casualties:
10,699
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Statistical Source: NPS
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The Battle of Shiloh begins: On the morning of April
6, 1862, Confederates commanded by Albert Sidney Johnston
roared into Grant's
encampment around Pittsburg Landing, beginning the bloodiest
battle of the war. It would be remembered by the name
of the little whitewashed church around which some of
the fiercest early fighting swirled - Shiloh, a Hebrew
word meaning "place of peace."
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