Harley Wayne, however, did not miss U.S. Grant's second major battle, this time against Confederate General Albert Sidney Johnston, considered at the time to be the South's best general.
On a Sunday morning, April 6, 1862, the two armies collided at Shiloh in western Tennessee. Shiloh was virtually little more than a backwoods church, when the Confederates surprised Grant's Army at daybreak. At daybreak the firing began and by 5 am, the noise and confusion was everywhere on the battlefield.
Johnston was at the front directing his men when he took a bullet to an artery and bled to death.
Harley Wayne was also in the midst of the fighting, right by a place that came to be known as the "Hornet's Nest" because of the bloody confrontation there. He took a Confederate bullet in the chest and died instantly.
His body was shipped home and he was buried in Marengo Cemetery.
--Old Secesh
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