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ECW Podcast: Greg Mertz Looks Back – Shiloh, Gettysburg, Fredericksburg-Spotsylvania National Military Parks
Historian Greg Mertz talks Shiloh, Gettysburg, Fredericksburg-Spotsylvania, and more as he looks back, on the eve of his retirement, on more than three and a half decades with the National Park Service. Greg is the author of the ECWS book “Attack at Daylight and Whip Them: The Battle of Shiloh.” Greg is the 2018 recipient […]
Read more...ECW Weekender: Touring Shiloh Battlefield (Virtually)
Wishing to go to a battlefield where General Grant fought after the History Channel’s series earlier this week? How about a two-hour tour with NPS Ranger Stacy Allen at Shioh Battlefield? Good news! You can catch a tour without ever leaving home since C-SPAN recorded this informative, on-site tour in 2012. CSPAN Shiloh Battlefield Tour […]
Read more...In the Wake of Shiloh, Something to Consider about Vicksburg
In the wake of the Confederate loss at Shiloh, Gen. P.G.T. Beauregard worried about his situation. Expecting the Federals to press their advantage, he sent pleas to Richmond for additional reinforcements. On April 10, 1862, Robert E. Lee, serving as Jefferson Davis’s military advisor, responded to Beauregard’s entreaties with a telegram to Gen. John C. […]
Read more...David Reed: Shiloh’s Veteran Historian
Gettysburg has John Bachelder. Antietam has Ezra Carman. Shiloh has David Reed. Each of these men forever influenced the battlefields they devoted their lives to documenting. Two of them–Carman and Reed–participated in the battles they studied. I’ll admit, Carman and Bachelder were known to me. Until recently, I had never heard of David Reed. His […]
Read more...Surprise at Shiloh
The western battles of 1862 included three surprise attacks, although only one was planned as such. The opening Confederate attacks at Fort Donelson and Stones River caught the Union forces unprepared. Yet, neither caused a scandal, likely because both battles ended in decisive victories. Shiloh by contrast did lead to controversy because the Union forces […]
Read more...John S. Bowen’s Brigade and the First Day at Shiloh
In the early afternoon of April 6, 1862, General Albert Sidney Johnston raised the tin cup he had grabbed from a Union camp earlier that day and tapped the line of bayonets of his Rebel troops to rally them forward. “Men of Missouri and Arkansas, the enemy is stubborn,” the general cried. “I want you […]
Read more...How I Got Hooked on Shiloh: The Story Behind Attack at Daylight and Whip Them
Emerging Civil War is pleased to welcome Greg Mertz, author of the forthcoming ECWS title Attack at Daylight and Whip Them: The Battle of Shiloh and recipient of ECW’s 2018 Thomas Greely Stevenson Award for contributions to Emerging Civil War. My interest in the Battle of Shiloh was sparked by the annual visits to the […]
Read more...Shiloh and Private Samuel Chick
In studying up on my family’s genealogy in 2017 I found ancestors who fought both North and South. They are mostly cousins. I am the direct descendant of Private Samuel Chick of Company E of the 44th Tennessee. The regiment was one I had been chasing my entire life without knowing it. I am fascinated […]
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