USS Tyler
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USS Tyler was originally a merchant steamboat named A. O. Tyler, a commercial side-wheel steamboat with twin stacks and covered paddles positioned aft. Constructed in Cincinnati, Ohio in 1857, it was
The U. S. S. Tyler by F. Muller
The timberclad steamer gunboat USS Tyler with crew on deck. From the Liljenquist Family Collection of Civil War Photographs, Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress
Tyler with Lexington at Belmont
Tyler with Lexington at Shiloh
Battle of Shiloh
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The Battle of Shiloh, also known as the Battle of Pittsburg Landing, was a major battle in the American Civil War fought on April 6–7, 1862. The fighting took place in southwestern Tennessee, which wa
USS Tyler
…Tyler resumed operations on the Tennessee River in support of Grant's advance southward along the river's banks through western Tennessee. In the Battle of Shiloh, when Confederate forces under General Albert Sydney Johnston surprised Grant's troops in southwestern Tennessee near Pittsburg Landing and began pushing…
1888 illustration of the battle
U.S. Grant
Don C. Buell
Albert Sidney Johnston