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Bloody Pond, Shiloh, Tenn.
BLOODY POND
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PUBLISHED BY 1. & M. OTTENHEIMER, BALTIMORE, MD. MADE IN U. S, A.
BLOODY POND, SHILOH. TENN.
The Battle of Shiloh was fought April 6th
and 7th, 1863, General Albert Sydney Johnston
commanding the Confederates and General U.
8. Grant the Federals. After thirteen hours
fighting, the Federals were forced back, all
their camps, except the Second Division, capt-
ured and position after position surrendered.
In the night Gen. Buell came up with as many
fresh troops as the entire Confederate Army,
yet at close of the second day of hard fighting
the Confederates retired in good order and
were not pursued. "Bloody Pond" was in the
heaviest fighting near celebrated "Hornet's
Nest" and near where Gen. Johnston was
killed. It gets its name from being red with
blood of Confederate Soldiers. Loss Union
Army 18,047; Confederate 10,699.
4-
and Island Possessions:
Cuba, Canada and
For Foreign.
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