Was there any area captured after the Battle of Shiloh?
they held the land on which the battle took place and could use the Tennessee River as a means of supply, but the north did not care about capturing land as much as destroying the southern armies… it seems odd to us today, but at the time of the civil war, capturing cities and land per se was not the goal of either army, with four or five exceptions…certainly Vicksburg was important…New Orleans, Washington, Richmond and the Shenandoah Valley were important…there might have been some psychological damage done by capturing a city or a piece of land, but for the most part the armies were more interested in wiping each other out… like in Viet Nam and Iraq, taking and holding land was not easy because the people who lived there were not friendly…and it would take a great number of troops to pacify any captured lands…so usually the armies just tried to kill each other… some supply lines, like rivers and a town like Vicksburg, which controlled the Mississippi River, were consi
