Shiloh+Outcome

The Outcome of the Battle of Shiloh The battle of Shiloh was one of the bloodiest battles. Approximately 23,746 men died, of those, 13,047 were Union soldiers.The Battle of Shiloh would have bean a huge victory for the confederacy, however, with its loss and the amount of people that they lost on both sides. Leaders realized that the battle would not end soon. The battle was very bad on both sides. There were many corpses all over the battlefield; there were so many it was almost impossible to walk across the field without walking on bodies. As General Grant described, "it would have been possible to walk across the clearing in any direction stepping on dead bodies without a foot touching the ground."

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