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It's the spring of 1862. The Confederate Army in the West teeters on the brink of collapse following the catastrophic loss of Fort Donelson. Commanding general Albert Sidney Johnston is forced to pull up stakes, abandon the critical city of Nashville, and rally his troops in defense of the Memphis and Charleston Railroad. Hot on Johnston's trail are two of the Union's best generals: the relentless Ulysses Grant, fresh off his career-making victory...
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Tormented by Southern partisans, Missouri farm boy Caleb Cole joins the Union's Eighteenth Missouri. About the same time, down on the Texas coast, violin-playing Ryan McCalla, from a well-to-do family, enlists in the Confederacy's Second Texas-mainly in the spirit of adventure-with some friends.
The two teenagers are about to grow up quickly.
Fate will bring the two together-along with a teenage girl from Corinth, Mississippi, when the Confederate...
6) Shiloh
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Time-Life Books
Pub. Date
c1996
Language
English
Description
An album of personal recollections about the Civil War Battle of Shiloh, taken from letters, diaries, photographs, sketches, and artifacts of soldiers and civilians who experienced the campaign.
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Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
[1997]
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English
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"The Battle of Shiloh was fought in April 1862 on the banks of the Tennessee River in south central Tennessee. In two days of vicious combat more casualties were inflicted than in all of the rest of America's wars added together up to that time. Despite the bloody butcher's list, no land exchanged hands. The North was stunned to hear that one of its principal armies had been taken by surprise. The Federal commander, Major General Ulysses S. Grant,...
8) Shiloh, 1862
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National Geographic Society
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
In the spring of 1862, many Americans still believed that the Civil War, "would be over by Christmas." The previous summer in Virginia, Bull Run, with nearly 5,000 casualties, had been shocking, but suddenly came word from a far away place in the wildernesses of Southwest Tennessee of an appalling battle costing 23,000 casualties, most of them during a single day. It was more than had resulted from the entire American Revolution. As author Winston...
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University of Tennessee Press
Pub. Date
[1977]
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English
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"If you want to know what it was like to be caught up in a confused Civil War battle complete with a 100,000-man cast, inept generals, missed opportunities, and grim humor amid suffering and death, here is your chance. McDonough has done a fine job of research which, for all that, recaptures the agony of Shiloh ("A place of peace") in twelve highly readable chapters...The author's special skill, however, is his use of revealing, perceptive quotes...
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The Kent State University Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
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English
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"Who was Lew Wallace's true foe--the Confederacy, General Halleck, General Grant, or himself? Lew Wallace of Indiana was a self-taught extraordinary military talent. With boldness and celerity, he advanced in less than a year from the rank of colonel of the 11th Indiana to that of major general commanding the 3rd Division at Shiloh. Ultimately, his civilian, amateur military status collided headlong with the professional military culture being assiduously...
11) Shiloh
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Series
Civil War battle series volume 2
Publisher
Cumberland House
Pub. Date
c1999
Language
English
Description
A Confederate's tale of intrigue and adventure at Shiloh, the bloodiest fighting in Tennessee, in this second volume in The Civil War Battles Series. Cory Brannon joins the crew of the riverboat Missouri Zephyr and must choose sides when the boat's crew is swept into the fighting for control of the river, and after a brief period as a prisoner, Cory finds himself taking up arms again at the Battle of Shiloh.