Today in History-Shiloh: "The slaughter on both sides is immense."

In the Bible, "Shiloh" meant "place of peace."

That word took a whole new terrible meaning on April 7, 1862, when Union forces led by Gen. Ulysses S. Grant defeated the Confederates at the Battle of Shiloh in Tennessee, near Corinth. Coming nearly one year after the Civil War began with the bombardment of Fort Sumter, the battle was the most horrific and costly of the war to that point.

In a report on the battle two days later, the New York Times account said,

The slaughter on both sides is...