Shiloh

Things have been slow for the past month, but today was one for the books. We battled this week at Shiloh. My troops and I had set up camp at a church in Shiloh, Tennessee we didn't feel the need to have guards around the clock so we all rested for a bit. We awoke that morning to an attack by a group of Confederate soldiers! Yes, we were taken by shock, but a little surprise attack wasn't enough to make me surrender. I lost a lot of men and it was going to hurt my chances of taking over the Mississippi. But, luckily I thought of counterattacking them the next day and I was able to force them to surrender. This battle was a great victory and though I lost a lot of men, I was able to learn a few things. Number one, we need scouts at all times, because we never know when the Confederates will attack. And number two, this is going to be a very long and bloody war.   

Shiloh
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