#battle of shiloh
Sketch of the Battle of Shiloh for General Beauregard, 4/3/1862.
From the War Department Collection of Confederate Records.
File Unit: Tennessee, 1861 - 1876
Series: Confederate Maps, 1861 - 1876
Record Group 109: War Department Collection of Confederate Records, 1825 - 1927
Image description: A map drawn in red, blue, and black, showing rivers, towns, roads, and railroads.
Image description: Zoomed in image of the map.
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General Albert Sidney Johnston(Confederate)
The most senior general on either side to be killed in action during the war, Albert Sidney Johnston was one of the less hirsute military commanders. He had a long military career as a general in the Army of the Texas Republic as well as the US Army, and favoured just a moustache, albeit an immaculate one.
Johnston was put in charge of the huge western part of the Confederacy early in the war. He led his men into battle at Shiloh in April 1862 and was killed during a cavalry charge, apparently by friendly fire. His wound probably needn’t have been fatal, but he’d sent his personal doctor away to deal with injured Union prisoners, and the officers who went to his aid apparently had little idea of how to tie a tourniquet. One tried pouring brandy into his dying general’s mouth, unsurprisingly to little effect, and Johnston bled to death.
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