An army in its tents with a river at its back, and a Confederate army walking out of the woods. Shiloh is in Civy War as a free battle and as a two-day campaign on the Shiloh National Military Park Commission's 1900 survey.
Three scenarios, each playable from either side. Every battle runs five minutes on the clock against a Green, Regular or Veteran enemy: the attacker has to break the line before nightfall, the defender has to hold.
The whole battle on one field. As the Union, hold Pittsburg Landing until reinforcements arrive: steady your divisions at the Hornet's Nest and give ground grudgingly. As the Confederacy, drive Grant into the river before Buell's men can cross the Tennessee.
Sunday morning. Sherman's camps around the log church are already gone. As the Union, get Prentiss, W. H. L. Wallace and Hurlbut into line on the old sunken road by Duncan field and hold it long enough to save the army. As the Confederacy, roll up the camps with Hardee's corps, Cleburne's brigade among them, then Bragg's and Polk's lines behind, and take the landing before dark. Breckinridge's reserve brigades come up on your right during the fight.
Monday. Buell's Army of the Ohio, Nelson's, Crittenden's and McCook's divisions, crossed in the night, and Lew Wallace's division has come up. As the Union, retake Duncan field, Water Oaks Pond and the crossroads at the church. As the Confederacy, fight a rearguard and get the army back down the Corinth road.
In the spring of 1862 Grant's army was camped at Pittsburg Landing on the Tennessee River, waiting for Don Carlos Buell's Army of the Ohio to join it. Albert Sidney Johnston struck first. At dawn on April 6 his army came out of the woods into camps that had no entrenchments.
The Union center held a sunken road by Duncan field for some six hours against repeated assaults, the place the soldiers called the Hornets' Nest, until massed Confederate guns blew it apart and Prentiss surrendered what was left. The delay saved Grant's army. Johnston was shot that afternoon and bled to death, and P. G. T. Beauregard took command.
Buell's men crossed the river in the night. On April 7 Grant and Buell attacked at dawn and retook nearly all the lost ground by mid-afternoon, and Beauregard withdrew to Corinth. The two days cost some 23,700 men, more than every earlier battle of the war put together.
Mostly free. The Shiloh battle and the Hornet's Nest are free. Grant Counterattacks, the second day, is part of the Historical Campaigns, a one-time purchase that also unlocks Gettysburg's second and third days and Antietam's Sunken Road and Burnside's Bridge.
Thirteen battles, the Drill Field and the Field Manual are free. The Historical Campaigns, Grant's Campaigns and The Western Campaigns are optional one-time purchases that restore on every device signed in to the same Apple ID.
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