September 29, 1862 – Major General William “Bull” Nelson was shot to death by Brigadier General Jefferson C. Davis over a trivial argument. The Federal
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Kentucky: Buell Reaches Louisville
September 25, 1862 – Major General Don Carlos Buell’s Federal Army of the Ohio secured Louisville, but the Lincoln administration received several reports critical of
The Battle of Richmond
August 30, 1862 – Major General Edmund Kirby Smith’s Confederate army confronted a small Federal force in the first full-scale battle during Smith’s incursion into
Confederates Poised to Attack in Kentucky
August 29, 1862 – One Confederate army began moving north toward Kentucky, while another was already in Kentucky and preparing for battle. By August 20,
The Battle of Shiloh: Day Two
April 7, 1862 – Federal forces counterattacked, driving the Confederates back to Corinth and ending a horrific two-day struggle. Heavy storms raged through the night
The Battle of Shiloh: Day One
April 6, 1862 – The most terrible battle of the war to date began as the Confederate Army of Mississippi swarmed upon unsuspecting Federals in