161 YEARS AGO Battle of Shiloh April 6-7, 1862 “Shiloh was the severest battle fought in the West during the war, and but few in the East equaled it for hard, determined fighting. I saw an open field, in our possession on the second day, over which the Confederates had made repeated charges the day before, so covered with dead that it would have been possible to walk across the clearing, in any direction, stepping on dead bodies, without a foot touching the ground." — Ulysses S. Grant | Civil Wa