Battlefield at Shiloh
When General Albert Sidney Johnston was wounded in the leg and quickly bled to death during the Battle of Shiloh (Pittsburg Landing) on April 6–7, 1862, his command of the Confederate Army of the Mississippi was assumed by General P. G. T. Beauregard. This delicately drawn manuscript map endorsed by Beauregard, shows the location of the critical battlefield site known as the “Hornet’s Nest,” Confederate and Union troop positions, Confederate headquarters, tents of Federal camps, and the position of gun boats along the Tennessee River.
When General Albert Sidney Johnston was wounded in the leg and quickly bled to death during the Battle of Shiloh (Pittsburg Landing) on April 6–7, 1862, his command of the Confederate Army of the Mississippi was assumed by General P. G. T. Beauregard. This delicately drawn manuscript map endorsed by Beauregard, shows the location of the critical battlefield site known as the “Hornet’s Nest,” Confederate and Union troop positions, Confederate headquarters, tents of Federal camps, and the position of gun boats along the Tennessee River.