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Albert Sidney Johnston Stumped at Shiloh
Imagine your job is to go around an unmarked battlefield and mark the places where significant events happened. Yes, you were there at the time of the fight, but of course, things were a bit confusing at the time and you were pretty stressed out. The field looked different then, too, and, of course, there […]
Read more...Shiloh: Preston Pond’s Charge at Tilghman Branch
Among the largest brigades to fight at Shiloh was Colonel Preston Pond’s outfit, mostly made up of Louisiana troops. It numbered around 2,600 men. 1,400 of these were in two regiments, the 38th Tennessee and the Crescent Regiment, a militia outfit made up of wealthy men from New Orleans, mostly Anglo-Americans. By contrast there was […]
Read more...Saving History Saturday: American Battlefield Trust Offers New ECW Shiloh Book for Supporters
In honor of the Battle of Shiloh’s 157th anniversary this weekend, the American Battlefield Trust announced its latest campaign to save 73 acres of hallowed ground at two significant 1862 battles: Shiloh and South Mountain. To save these two critical battlefields, the Trust hopes to raise $103,000 from private donations. To encourage more donations, the Trust […]
Read more...The 25th Missouri Infantry at Shiloh
“After mature deliberation [Colonel Everett Peabody] decided to do as above stated – attack, and thus give the alarm to those in our rear, so that they could turn out and make some resistance to the overwhelming force, and not be captured or attacked in their quarters. This move seemed to be the only way […]
Read more...Modern Photography: Shiloh
We were rummaging around in the ECW archives and found this excellent photography essay by Lee White.
Read more...The 47th Tennessee Infantry at Shiloh
Today we are pleased to welcome back guest author Sean Michael Chick In the American Civil War, Don Carlos Buell’s arrival at Shiloh with over 15,000 men, stands as the most famous reinforcement of the war. Its importance to the battle’s outcome has been long debated, with Ulysses Grant’s partisans sometimes downplaying its importance. Regardless, […]
Read more...July 1, 1884: Grant’s “New Disaster of Shiloh”
On July 1, 1884, editors of Century Magazine received a much-anticipated envelope from former president Ulysses S. Grant. Grant had agreed to write four articles for the magazine about his wartime experiences, which would kick off an upcoming series of first-person accounts penned by the surviving “great figures” of the conflict. Grant was, of course, […]
Read more...Shiloh 2016
I had the chance to spend a few days at Shiloh this past week for the 154th anniversary of the battle. The Park Service held some living history programs, which I was helping out with. Here are a few scenes from the battlefield on the battle’s anniversary, April 6-7.
Read more...Mississippi returns to Shiloh
Nearly 6,000 Mississippians fought at Shiloh, filling the ranks of 7 artillery batteries, a cavalry battalion, and ten infantry regiments. Until now, only the red war department tablets have marked their passage across the battlefield. When the park was created in the 1890s, the state of Mississippi could not afford to sponsor individual unit markers, […]
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