File:Battle of Shiloh starts.png
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Powell found Wood's Third Mississippi Battalion, commanded by Major Aaron Hardcastle, at Fraley Field
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English: Map shows the beginning of the Battle of Shiloh in the American Civil War. Around 5:00 AM on April 6, 1862, a patrol led by Union Major James E. Powell found the Confederate Army near a cotton field owned by James J. Fraley. The battle took place in southwestern Tennessee in an area near Shiloh Church and Pittsburg Landing on the Tennessee River. |
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| Source | This file is a crop from the Wikimedia file "Shiloh Battle April 6 pm.png" by Hal Jespersen. The crop is the bottom half of the file, which shows only the terrain. TwoScarsUp has added the troop positions, arrows, and label. The source for the positions is a map called "The First Contact", on page 147 of the book "Shiloh and the Western Campaign of 1862", by O. Edward Cunningham and edited by Gary D. Joiner and Timothy B. Smith. |
| Author | Hal Jespersen and TwoScarsUp |
Southwestern Tennessee near the border with the state of Mississippi.
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