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Episode One — Bloody Shiloh 1860 presidential election of anti-slavery candidate Abraham Lincoln . . . Thirteen states from the South secede and form the Confederate States of America, led by President Jefferson Davis. . . 1862 Union forces led by General Ulysses S. Grant force the unconditional surrender of Confederate forces at Fort Donelson . . . A Confederate force launches a brutal surprise attack at Shiloh, led by Albert Sidney Johnston. Grant’s army is within a mile of the Tennessee River and has established a “last line of defense”... Johnston loses his life in the battle.
