Battle of Shiloh questions

hello I've got some ideas on a different Battle of Shiloh to make it a Confederate victory & would like yalls opinion & feedback to see if any are possible & what yall think might happen because of a Union defeat, here they are.

1.) Have General Sherman killed on the first day of the battle. With Sherman dead could General Hardee's troops overrun Sherman's division taking it out of the western flank?

2.) General Johnston not get shot & continue to lead the Confederate Army.



Could these either together or separate let the Confederates defeat Grant at Pittsburgh Landing? & if so what effects would this have on the civil war? Could Grant get replaced? Could the Confederacy keep the Union from cutting it in half? What all could happen?

Thanks ahead for all input.
 
Could Grant get replaced? .

Strictly speaking Grant was replaced, promoted so to speak to a window seat as the Japanese would say. It was not until the perception developed that the Union army was stalled at Vicksburg that he was moved to a more important (and higher risk) position.

'Losing' the Pittsburg Landing battle would set Grants accendancy back further. I cant say if he would be placed in command opposite Vicksburg as in OTL, tho I get the feeling that between his previous sucesses and the greater failures of his peers he would have been re- elevated to a important command that year.

For the Confederates this victory would help, but several more would be needed to solidify the secessionist position in Tennessee.
 
Strictly speaking Grant was replaced, promoted so to speak to a window seat as the Japanese would say. It was not until the perception developed that the Union army was stalled at Vicksburg that he was moved to a more important (and higher risk) position.

'Losing' the Pittsburg Landing battle would set Grants accendancy back further. I cant say if he would be placed in command opposite Vicksburg as in OTL, tho I get the feeling that between his previous sucesses and the greater failures of his peers he would have been re- elevated to a important command that year.

For the Confederates this victory would help, but several more would be needed to solidify the secessionist position in Tennessee.
would there even be a Vicksburg though? I mean with the Union for the moment at least still stuck in western Tennessee & Albert Sidney Johnson still alive could the Unions cutting the CSA in half along the Mississippi be pushed back at the least a few months later than OTL? Maybe a Vicksburg doesn't happen until late 1863 or early 1864 if it happens
 
would there even be a Vicksburg though? I mean with the Union for the moment at least still stuck in western Tennessee & Albert Sidney Johnson still alive could the Unions cutting the CSA in half along the Mississippi be pushed back at the least a few months later than OTL? Maybe a Vicksburg doesn't happen until late 1863 or early 1864 if it happens

Up to this point ASJ has shown himself to be startegically poor thinker. The surprise concentration and attack at Shiloh is his first real "successful" move. But then he hands tactical planning to Beaurgeard who makes a pigs ear of it (having corps advance in massive lines was nuts and caused a collapse in command and control as supporting troops were inevitably from another corps with each corps commanders troops were spread over the entire length of the field - easy change to a multi-corps front can improve Confederate command and control right there).

If you have Sherman dead (not implausible as at least one other divisional commander was dead) and with the logical replacement, Charles Ferguson Smith, slowing dying a short distance away I'm not sure who would either be raised up to replace Grant, or more likely brought in from elsewhere.

As for the Vicksburg campaign, even a duffer like McClernand could see the benefits of a campaign down the Mississippi towards Vicksburg. Alternatively it could come up from the south from New Orleans via Port Hudson. A Mississippi River campaign, in some form even without Grant, is very likely.
 
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