Speaker: Gregory Mertz

"Attack at daylight and whip them" was the Confederate plan on the morning of April 6, 1862. U. S. Grant’s unsuspecting Union Army of the had gathered on the banks of its namesake river at a spot called Pittsburg Landing, ready to strike deep into the heart of Albert Sidney Johnston’s Confederates. Johnston’s troops were reeling from setbacks earlier in the year and had decided to reverse their fortunes by taking the fight to the Federals. And yet, after a day of furious fighting, the once CSA battle plan became Grant’s plan. A gripping story told by a historian who grew up on this very battlefield.

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