got any info on the civil war battle of shiloh?

Question

i need to know:

-when and where it took place
-what kind of weapons did they use?
-who was the leader(s)-(like generals and such)
-what do you think it was like for them (the soldiers)to be on the battlefield or away from home?
-what did they eat?
-where did they sleep?
-what were the uniforms they had to wear?

if you have any additional info please feel free to add-the more the better

Answer 1

Shiloh - April 6th-7th, 1862 - Pittsburg Landing (Tennessee River)

The Union Army - Brigadier-General Ulysses S. Grant (Army of the Tennessee. 1st, 2nd, 3rd,4th, 5th, and 6th Divisions
Major-General Don Carlos Buell (Army of the Ohio). 2nd, 4th, 5th, and 6th Divisions
Official Strength - 44,885/Casualties - 13,047
Union Gun-Boats - Tyler and Lexington

The Confederate Army - General Albert Sidney Johnson (after his death) General P.G.T. Beauregard (Army of the Mississippi).
1st Army Corps, 47th Tennessee, 2nd Army Corps, 3rd Army Corps, Reserve, and Calvary.
Official Strength - 38,773/Casualties - 10,699

The Confederates caught the Union forces by surprise.
The Confederates lost their commander, Albert Sydney Johnson (he was shot through the leg and bled to death).
The Confederates failed to achieve their objective - the destruction of the Army of the Tennessee before the Army of Ohio joined them.

The Union forces fought a very stubborn defence.
The Union General Sherman was wounded, Brig-Gen. Prentiss was captured, and Brig-Gen. William H. L. Wallace was killed.
Colonel Everett Peabody was the first to warn of the attack, but was killed.

Answer 2

With the loss of Forts Henry and Donelson in February, General Johnston withdrew his disheartened Confederate forces into west Tennessee, northern Mississippi and Alabama to reorganize. In early March, General Halleck responded by ordering General Grant to advance his Union Army of West Tennessee on an invasion up the Tennessee River.
Occupying Pittsburg Landing, Grant entertained no thought of a Confederate attack. Halleck's instructions were that following the arrival of General Buell's Army of the Ohio from Nashville, Grant would advance south in a joint offensive to seize the Memphis & Charleston Railroad, the Confederacy's only east-west all weather supply route that linked the lower Mississippi Valley to cities on the Confederacy's east coast.
Assisted by his second-in-command, General Beauregard, Johnston shifted his scattered forces and concentrated almost 55,000 men around Corinth. Strategically located where the Memphis & Charleston crossed the Mobile & Ohio Railroad, Corinth was the western Confederacy's most important rail junction.
On April 3, realizing Buell would soon reinforce Grant, Johnston launched an offensive with his newly christened Army of the Mississippi. Advancing upon Pittsburg Landing with 43,938 men, Johnston planned to surprise Grant, cut his army off from retreat to the Tennessee River, and drive the Federals west into the swamps of Owl Creek.
In the gray light of dawn, April 6, a small Federal reconnaissance discovered Johnston's army deployed for battle astride the Corinth road, just a mile beyond the forward Federal camps. Storming forward, the Confederates found the Federal position unfortified. Johnston had achieved almost total surprise. By mid-morning, the Confederates seemed within easy reach of victory, overrunning one frontline Union division and capturing its camp. However, stiff resistance on the Federal right entangled Johnston's brigades in a savage fight around Shiloh Church. Throughout the day, Johnston's army hammered the Federal right, which gave ground but did not break. Casualties upon this brutal killing ground were immense.
Meanwhile, Johnston's flanking attack stalled in front of Sarah Bell's peach orchard and the dense oak thicket labeled the "hornet's nest" by the Confederates. Grant's left flank withstood Confederate assaults for seven crucial hours before being forced to yield ground in the late afternoon. Despite inflicting heavy casualties and seizing ground, the Confederates only drove Grant towards the river, instead of away from it. The Federal survivors established a solid front before Pittsburg Landing and repulsed the last Confederate charge as dusk ended the first day of fighting. Go to ask.com for more information.

Answer 3

The commanding general for the Union at this battle was Ulysses S. Grant.