Record Data Place Unit Type City or Town Containing Unit Alcorn County, MS Events Date Type 04/07/1862 At Pittsburg Landing, Union reinforcements turn the tide on the second day of the Battle of Shiloh Battles/Soldiers 04/03/1862 Confederate General Albert Sidney Johnston reorganizes the Army of the Mississippi into three corps Battles/Soldiers 06/24/1863 Iowa infantry officer dismissed from the Army for drunkenness and sleeping with a freed slave woman Crime/Disasters 04/06/1862 Massed Confederate forces attack the Union's Army of the Tennessee at Pittsburg Landing Battles/Soldiers People Documents Date Title 05/17/1863 New York Herald, “The Pen and the Sword,” May 17, 1863 Images
