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Patrick Cleburne at Shiloh or How to Learn Your Trade on the Fly, Part II
Read Part I here By later afternoon, both William Tecumseh Sherman and John McClernand had seen their divisions get forced back again and again. They were becoming tired and dispirited. C. Carroll Marsh wrote that his brigade had “been reduced to a mere nominal one.” Andrew Hickenlooper of the 5th Ohio Battery observed that “While […]
Read more...From Pittsburgh to Pittsburg Landing: Pennsylvanians at Shiloh
Drive by the monuments on the park tour road at Shiloh or glance through the Union Order of Battle and it stands out: among the dozens of units from Iowa, Michigan, Indiana, Ohio, and Illinois, is a lone Pennsylvania Regiment. The 77th was the only eastern unit on the field at Shiloh (there were other […]
Read more...Patrick Cleburne at Shiloh or How to Learn Your Trade on the Fly, Part I
Few Civil War commanders enjoy the high reputation of Patrick Cleburne. It is hard to find a battle where he did not excel, and his record reads as a roll-call of the Army of Tennessee’s career: Richmond, Perryville, Stones River, Chickamauga, Missionary Ridge, Ringgold Gap, Pickett’s Mill, Atlanta, and Franklin. Yet, all commanders have their […]
Read more...Civil War Surprises: A Tale of Two Diarists at Shiloh
Years ago, I took my first trip to New Orleans for my first archival experience at Tulane University. At the time, I was hunting down any information I could find about the 6th Louisiana Infantry for a personal research project, but I spent some additional hours rifling through a few boxes of Civil War documents. […]
Read more...Decisions at Shiloh/Shiloh on the ECW YouTube Page
To help commemorate the anniversary of the battle of Shiloh, Chris Mackowski chatted with with historian Dave Powell for the Emerging Civil War Podcast about Dave’s new book, Decisions at Shiloh. You can listen to it in podcast form here, or you can watch the video of that interview on the ECW YouTube page: And […]
Read more...A Visit to Shiloh in 2023
My two favorite places in the world are the French Quarter (where I live) and Shiloh National Military Park. I have been thinking about Shiloh since I read a short account of the battle in 1997 and then played the TalonSoft game and bought Larry J. Daniel’s account. I did not make it to the […]
Read more...Shiloh: Day to Night on the Battlefield
The story of the battle of Shiloh in photographs. Sunrise to sunset. Day to night. Battle to silence.
Read more...Everett Peabody on the Threshold of Shiloh
If it had been left to Brigadier General Benjamin Prentiss then Shiloh might have been the full surprise it was often falsely portrayed as. On the night of April 5, Captain Gilbert D. Johnson and Lieutenant Colonel William Graves of the 12th Michigan tried to warn Benjamin Prentiss that the Confederate army was on his […]
Read more...Benjamin Prentiss on the Threshold of Shiloh
The failure of the Union high command to anticipate General Albert Sidney Johnston’s attack at Shiloh still generates controversy and debate. Looking at the evidence it is clear that Brigadier General William Tecumseh Sherman failed to take the warnings seriously, only planning a scouting expedition for April 6. Major General Ulysses S. Grant failed as […]
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