Battle of Shiloh - Wikipedia
When the fighting later became heated in this area—Duncan Field, the Sunken Road, and the woods on the north side of the road—the Confederates began calling it the Hornets Nest. [ 122 ] At the beginning of the day, Prentiss had 7,545 men present for duty. [ 25 ]
The Battle of Shiloh & The Importance of the Hornet’s Nest - HistoryNet
Oct 19, 2016 · The reason the Hornet’s Nest at Shiloh was not hit as hard was because it was not a part of the Confederate agenda. There are two schools of thought on this. Both schools of thought were put together by veterans whose names have been lost to time.
Hornets' Nest - Tour Stop #10 - U.S. National Park Service
Aug 17, 2021 · Shiloh's Hornets' Nest refers to a nearly six-hundred-yard stretch of what came to be known as the Sunken Road in the center of the battlefield and was the scene of heavy combat on both days of the battle.
There is perhaps no more famous Civil War icon than the Hornet’s Nest at Shiloh. Ranking with Pickett’s Charge at Gettysburg, Bloody Lane at Antietam, and the Stone Wall at Fredericksburg, Shiloh’s Hornet’s Nest is well known to even the most amateur of …
The Battle of Shiloh - American Battlefield Trust
Unable to extricate themselves from the surrounding Confederates, 2,300 Union prisoners were taken in the collapse of the Hornets' Nest, including Ben Prentiss.
Shiloh Battle Facts and Summary - American Battlefield Trust
Throughout the morning, Confederate brigades force Grant’s troops into defensive positions at Shiloh Church, the Peach Orchard, Water Oaks Pond, and a treacherous thicket of oaks posthumously named the Hornets’ Nest by fortunate survivors.
Shiloh National Military Park | THE HORNET’S NEST - National …
Feb 3, 2022 · Stop 10 on a tour of Shiloh National Military Park is called the "Hornet's Nest," an area of heavy fighting on the first day of the Battle of Shiloh.
NPS Historical Handbook: Shiloh
Dec 2, 2002 · Under cover of continuous fire from these guns, the Confederates attacked with renewed courage and redoubled energy. Unable to withstand the assault, the troops on both the Federal right and left withdrew toward the Landing, leaving Prentiss and W. H. L. Wallace isolated in the Hornets' Nest.
Shiloh - April 6, 1862 - Noon to 4:30pm - American Battlefield Trust
While the Confederates became focused on a group of some 6,400 Federals in an area now known as the Hornet's Nest, Union Gen. Ulysses S. Grant arrived on the field and began to scratch together a final line near Pittsburg Landing. Reinforcements, too, were on the way in the form of the Union Army of the Ohio.
Battle Of Shiloh - HistoryNet
The Hornet’s Nest was a name given to the area of the Shiloh battlefield where Confederate troops made repeated attacks against Union positions along a small, little-used farm road on the first day of the battle, April 6, 1862.