The Civil War Battle of Shiloh took place April 6th and 7th, 1862 in Hardin County, Tennessee, and resulted in a Union victory over Confederate forces attempting to defend two major western railroads servicing the strategically important Mississippi Valley region. Nearly 110,000 troops took part in the fighting, which produced almost 24,000 casualties, making it the bloodiest battle to that point in U.S. history. American History TV visited Shiloh National Military Park, where Stacy Allen, the Park's Chief Ranger, gave us a tour of the battlefield.

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The Civil War Battle of Shiloh took place April 6th and 7th, 1862 in Hardin County, Tennessee, and resulted in a Union victory over Confederate forces. We visited Shiloh National Military Park, where Stacy Allen, the Park's Chief Ranger, talked about some of the artifacts on display in the Visitor Center, including battle flags, arms and munitions, and personal items from soliders who fought in the battle. He also took us behind the scenes to the Park’s storage facility, where he showed us two rare Civil War tents.

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Historians and authors discuss the Battle of Shiloh, which was fought 150 years ago in Hardin County, Tennessee on April 6-7, 1862. The battle resulted in a Union victory over Confederate forces attempting to defend two major western railroads servicing the strategically important Mississippi Valley region. Nearly 110,000 troops took part in the fighting, which produced almost 24,000 casualties, making it the bloodiest battle to that point in U.S. history.

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Author and history professor William Shea talks about the Battle of Pea Ridge, Arkansas, which was fought on March 7th and 8th, 1862. He spoke to a group at the Saline County Library in Benton, Arkansas a few days after the 150th anniversary of the battle.

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The Atlantic has published a special commemorative issue on the Civil War. The edition contains some 50 pieces of reporting, essays, poetry & fiction from the magazine’s archives, but also includes contemporary works, including one by President Obama. The issue covers the run up to the Civil War, the war itself & the aftermath, and some of the writers featured include Mark Twain, Harriet Beecher Stowe & Nathaniel Hawthorne. American History TV talked to The Atlantic’s editor, James Bennet, and deputy editor Scott Stossel, about the issue.

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Old Dominion University professor Timothy Orr teaches a course on the Civil War and Reconstruction. In this lecture, he discusses how Union and Confederate forces handled prisoners of war, and takes a look conditions inside some Civil War prison camps. Old Dominion University is located in Norfolk, Virginia.

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The Battle of Wilson’s Creek in southwestern Missouri on August 10, 1861, is considered by many historians to be the second battle of the Civil War – taking place about three weeks after the better-know Battle of Bull Run back east in Virginia. Missouri State University History Professor William Piston talked about that battle and the events that led up to it at an event hosted by the Missouri History Museum in St. Louis.

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This week on The Civil War, a talk by A. Wilson Greene on the West Virginia campaigns in the summer and fall of 1861.  Greene is the executive director of Pamplin Historical Park, and the National Museum of the Civil War Soldier in Petersburg, Virginia.  He gave this talk in June to conference attendees at the Civil War Institute at Gettysburg College.

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The Battle of Bull Run took place on July 21, 1861 and was one of the main topics of this year’s annual summer conference hosted by the Civil War Institute at Gettysburg College.

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Historian Susannah Ural discusses the legacy of the Union defeat near Leesburg, Virginia in October 1861. Colonel Edward Dickinson Baker, the only sitting U.S. Senator to be killed in battle, died at Ball’s Bluff, and the battle led to the creation of the congressional Joint Committee on the Conduct of the War.

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