Tour Stop 8: What led the Confederate Army to Shiloh? Johnston's Last Bivouac 

Hello from Savannah TN home of Cherry Mansion Grants headquarters when the battle started.

If only I could give this a thousand likes! ALL of you gentlemen are a National Treasure. 🇺🇸

Very interesting to hear how the armies were set up before the battle. Could listen to Parker all day long!

Thank you for the mention of my hometown Decatur, Alabama. It is widely believed that Johnston during his stay here at the Mcartney Hotel drew up the plans for the battle at Shiloh.

In 1857, Sidney A Johnston was in command of the largest US Army contingent west of the Mississippi at Camp Floyd, Utah - before the Civil War. He was there to keep an eye on the Mormons; and the Secretary of War (John Buchanan Floyd, a Virginian and southern sympathizer) was keeping the army disbursed and away from the South. There were many famous future commanders at Camp Floyd before the war. There’s not a lot to see there now, but there’s a military cemetery, and it’s close to a Pony Express station. It would be great to see a short presentation about Camp Floyd. Salutes!

My father used to always say that..."Right Cheer".... Thank you Parker that pulled on my heartstrings pretty good....😂❤️💯❤️💯❤️

Parker is THE man!

I believe my great grandfather, Col. Edward Dillon, was there. He fought under McCulloch, Van Dorn, Polk, and Forrest. He was related to Johnston and married Polk's niece.

Thanks you for the presentation and effort! 🇨🇦 I am from Canada and these videos are golden to me! Happy holidays from your brothers to the North

I sat in my car listening to a thunderstorm above me and imagining cannons booming. I will always remember my trip to Shiloh. I followed the directions in Civil War Times.

"Having a field day at Shiloh" clearly my kind of guy.

I have been there once, now I need to return so I can better understand the events given this amazing presentation. Keep up the work, non military folks such as myself enjoy the analysis.

Very helpful and clear; the maps are great From Michie!

Another terrific video Thanks.

Thanks again for the GREAT history!

It has really been helpful to have the general explain the sequence of events and the the thought processes of a military commander.

Like the last map showing all the creeks, knowing on the soft terrain creeks cut into the land, promoting cuts and more natural undergrowth. The farm land, better for battle, was scattered between this terrain made for defense. Read a Shiloh book and found out the part terrain played in defensive position and slowing down forward progress in both the Confederate and Union pushes, it's hard to win going up a steep hill with people hidden and shooting from the ridge. Given that task I would probably lie down behind a log and wait it out, I think I'm hit, I would have to be quite young and stupid to get me to do much in such a situation. From the book it appeared that exact thing was an issue with the Confederate lack of success, given difficult or imposable tasks the unit would dissolve. And of course, a Union had a large percentage of its force hanging out at the landing looking for a ride back home in the middle of a battle.

Hey, for Europeans these are the first images we have of the battlefields in the west. We can just imagine the Virginian countryside but for Europeans anything between Virginia and california is the 'great American desert'. Your videos are invaluable in dispelling these ideas. Without you guys the ACW for Europeans would be just the Eastern campaigns. Thank you for all your efforts and wonderful explanations ON LOCATION. FILMING on location makes all the difference between book LEARNING and the intimacy of actually seeing the site where history was and is STILL being made.

great job everyone.....and Parker is fantastic!

the story of shiloh is very interesting! how the confederate had trouble organizing at first and then pgt deploys the army in Napoleonic fashion. gen parker the historian is a gem! love what he says follow the geography and that effects the envrionment en ambiente y resuelto y acciones actions and results of the battle; or movement,

Y’all do a great job with the videos. Thank you!

Gary, when was this filmed? I’m guessing this last fall. Thanks for this series on this amazing fight.

Awesome

Could you consider using arrows when pointing things out on the field to help get a better reverence we're people we're. Just a suggestion.

Excellent!

Great presentation Parker

patiently waiting

Thanks!! That was interesting!!

The Shiloh Confederate movements map "action" video did not disappoint.

My GrandFather's adopted Grandfather Capt. John Ziegler was there at Shiloh

Loved it. Thank you

If Lew Wallace’s units were expected to be available for support wouldn’t it be normal for a couple officers and a couple sergeants to have ridden the possible connecting routes. Notes, sketches, maybe even blazes on trees. Except how observations were kept and communicated, this would have seemed normal in ancient times, to current times. This would seem a lot easier to do when no one is fighting.

Get an easil to but the maps on or a stand. Just a suggestion. 😁❤

I don't understand what was so important about Corinth, Mississippi?

Okay okay, “goat rope”, “frog strangler” 😂

Did these solders have to worry about those gators in these rivers ?

How many times in warfare have we heard, they were hoping this, they were hoping that.

You know Jackson is the only one that'll Work Night Shift...😂

General Bragg really needed an eyebrow trimming

LOL: "High tech camera"

Love the video. Just wish the government would stop taking down all the statues and monuments. This is our history and they are defacing it by doing this.