SHILOH NATIONAL MILITARY PARK, Tenn. — “The battle of Shiloh, or Pittsburg Landing, fought on Sunday and Monday, the 6th and 7th of April, 1862,” wrote Union Major Gen. Ulysses S. Grant, “has been ...
The Hornet’s Nest looks much like it did on those two bloody days in 1862. A wooden split-rail fence lines the sunken dirt lane at the edge of a dense oak thicket that has become an icon of the ...
Remembered as the Drummer Boy of Shiloh, Johnny Klem was a 9-year-old when the Civil War began on April 15, 1861. There is a story that started soon after the end of the Civil War that Johnny was at ...
MOBILE, Alabama-- "All battles are tragic," Winston Groom writes in his stunning new history, "Shiloh, 1862" (National Geographic, $30). But as he then goes on to prove for over 400 pages, Shiloh ...
SHILOH NATIONAL MILITARY PARK, Tenn. -- "The battle of Shiloh, or Pittsburg Landing, fought on Sunday and Monday, the 6th and 7th of April, 1862," wrote Union Major Gen. Ulysses S. Grant, "has been ...
would be a little intimidated covering such well-trod ground. Groom said the biggest challenge in approaching his new book "Shiloh, 1862" (National Geographic, $30) was "bringing a freshness to it.
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Groom enhances his solid reputation as a writer of general audience military history with this narrative of the Civil War’s first major battle in the west. Shiloh was fought by armies unprepared in ...
We at The Republican are launching a four-year project to tell the story of how our community coped with 48 months of war, from April of 1861 to April of 1865. On the first Sunday of each month we ...
New York: Savas Beattie, 2007. Pp. xxix, 476. Illus., maps, append., notes, biblio., index. $34.95. ISBN:1932714340 Prof. O. Edward Cunningham's doctoral dissertation ...
Union Maj. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant sends troops in pursuit of Confederate fighters retreating after the battle at Shiloh, or Pittsburg Landing, in Tennessee. But a feisty Confederates rearguard, led by ...
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