he sends out a large reconnaissance, primarily elements of two divisions, sherman and thomas j. wood from buel's command on april 8th primarily to see whether or not the confederates are regrouping for another hit. that's the biggest worry, they may be regrouping for another strike. it is a bloodletting of proportions the nation was totally ill-prepared to kind of factor. 23,746 men killed, wounded and missing. 3,500 killed outright basically and 16,420 wounded and the remainder 3,600 or so captured forces. it is a massive bloodletting, a huge scale. the federals believed one more big strike and this war was broke wide open in the west and everything would be resolved and shiloh disproves that completely. the confederates still had this feeling that one confederate soldier could whip ten yankee hirings as shelby foote used to say and that's washed away in the blood bath of shiloh. shiloh is a wakeup call this was going to play out over an extended period of time and shiloh was going to be the first example of a bloodletting, total war now in play and both sides had just entered the f

sherman and thomas j. wood from buell's command on april 8 primarily to see whether or not the confederates are regrouping for another hit. that's grant's biggest worry, that they may be regrouping for another strike. it's a bloodletting of proportions the nation was totally ill prepared to kind of factor. 23,746 men wounded, killed and missing. 3,500 men killed outright, basically, and 6,420 wounded and roughly the remainder, 3,600 or so, captured forces. they were constituted as missing, many of them wounded. so a massive bloodletting of a huge scale. the federal believed one more big strike and this war would have broke wide up in the west and everything would be resolved. sh shiloh disproved that completely. the confederate

he sends out a large reconnaissance, primarily elements of two divisions, sherman and thomas j. wood from buel's command on april 8th primarily to see whether or not the confederates are regrouping for another hit. that's the biggest worry, they may be regrouping for another strike. it is a blood letting of proportions the nation was totally ill prepared to kind of factor. 23,746 men killed, wounded and missing. 3,5 million filled outright basically and 16,420 wounded and the remainder