The Battle of Shiloh, also known as the Battle of Pittsburg Landing, took place near the Tennessee River in southwestern Tennessee. Confederate Generals Albert Sidney Johnson and P.G.T.Beauregard launched a surprise attack on Major General Ulysses S. Grant and his men. Grant’s men, the majority of them Ohioans, were reportedly untested in battle. Despite this [...]

Union occupation of Eastern Tennessee was viewed by President Lincoln as being important for securing a victory against Rebel troops by gaining control of the Confederate’s interior railroad line, gaining  control over key resources, and repatriating sympathetic citizens into the Union. On August 17, 1863 General A.E. Burnside led units of Ohio Volunteer Infantry from [...]

In an attempt to force Confederate soldiers out of Chattanooga, Tennessee Ohio General William Rosecrans scattered Rebel troops and forced General Braxton Bragg south. Instead of heeding pleas to return to Chattanooga to rest, Rosecrans pursued Bragg into Georgia by splitting up his army to attack Bragg on multiple fronts.  General Bragg was determined to [...]

When Abraham Lincoln, a known opponent of slavery, was elected president, the South Carolina legislature perceived a threat. Calling a state convention, the delegates voted to remove the state of South Carolina from the union known as the United States of America. The secession of South Carolina was followed by the secession of six more [...]