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     It was a long tiring winter after the Union armed force drove the Confederate armed force further south. The Union caught Forts Henry and Donelson on the Tennessee and Cumberland waterways. This is the place I needed to assume control over announcing the war for my sibling Mike Bloom who was executed in the line of obligation. It was his activity that is currently mine John Bloom to report for the Union Observer.      After these gallant Union triumphs the Confederate armed force General Sidney Johnston had to desert quite a bit of west and center Tennessee just as Kentucky. Johnston felt that it was important to secure the main all climate access among Richmond and Memphis. Which was the Charleston and Memphis railroad. There he set up another protective line.      While this was going on I was positioned at Fort Shiloh with somewhere in the range of 40,000 troopers who were caught up with boring yet for the most part sticking around getting a handle on the little recreation and rest time they at any point saw. I asked one solider who just escaped the brook after a reviving swim â€Å"Why he was swimming and not training†. His reaction was â€Å"Didn’t you realize that Shiloh is the Hebrew word for spot of peace† we both got a decent laugh out of that and he gave me some moon sparkle.      After conversing with the soldiers I concluded the time had come to ask the leader who was General Ulysses S. Award what the game plan was.      I inquired as to whether he had any requests his reaction was â€Å"My predominant General H.W. Halleck has requested me to hold on at Shiloh and sit tight for the fortification of General Don Carlos Buell and his military from Ohio to arrive.† I at that point asked him cap did he feel was the impetus of this war? â€Å" Well as I would see it I fell that if the South just could have contemplated their ethics and how indecent subjugation was which is the reason the North made it unlawful and needed it abrogated from the South.† Are there some other reasons you think the war begun? â€Å"Yes I additionally feel that when the South prevailing from the Union was likewise an enormous factor.† Thank you sir for the entirety of that data the individuals up north will be wrapped with your assessment.      Little did I realize that when I was resting that the Confederate soldiers were mounting an assault this night of April 5, 1862.