A night of rain meant a humid April morning, with enough moisture in the air that smoke from the first day's battle still hung over Shiloh as the second day began.
The Union Army barely held its position on April 6, 1862. The second day of the Battle of Shiloh was one of history's biggest cliffhangers.
The South had to win this battle, or it would be increasingly certain the out-manned Confederate Army was doomed to lose the Civil War. The Union took a beating on Day 1, losing 3,000 more men than the South. Union reinforcements, on the way from the Nashville area, were delayed by flooding rivers and washed-out bridges.
Would they arrive in time to help Gen. Ulysses S. Grant and his Union soldiers put down the secessionist Rebels?
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