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Tag Archives: Battle of Shiloh
A Scene of Desolation – A Missouri Soldier Visits the Shiloh Battlefield in June 1862
On the morning of June 16, 1862, Pvt. Robert Goodman of the Seventh Missouri Infantry left his unit’s encampment to take a stroll. The last couple of weeks had been particularly hard for the men of the “Irish Seventh” regiment, … Continue reading
The Post-Shiloh Musings of General Sherman
There is little doubt that the Battle of Shiloh, April 6-7, 1862, changed not only the nature of the American Civil War, but also the trajectory of William Tecumseh Sherman’s career. Going into the battle Sherman was working diligently to … Continue reading
Posted in Battles, Primary Sources
Tagged Battle of Shiloh, Henry Halleck, Newspapers, Primary Sources, William T. Sherman
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Had Come Close to a Dazzling Victory
Posted in Battles, Photography
Tagged Battle of Shiloh, Bruce Catton, Joseph Hardin, Shiloh Battlefield, Shiloh National Military Park
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Thinking Big on a Battlefield
After the bloody fighting ended around Pittsburg Landing on April 6, 1862, Gen. Pierre Gustave Toutant Beauregard, recently appointed commander of the Army of the Mississippi following Albert Sidney Johnston’s death earlier that day, took stock of his army’s hard … Continue reading
Posted in Battles, Leadership--Confederate, Western Theater
Tagged Albert Sidney Johnston, Army of the Mississippi, Athens Tennessee, Battle of Shiloh, Don Carlos Buell, P. G. T. Beauregard, P.G.T. Beauregard, PGT Beauregard, Pierre Gustave Toutant Beauregard, Pittsburg Landing, Timothy B. Smith, Ulysses S. Grant
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Stephen Hurlbut and the Quest for Redemption
Few Civil War generals and politicians had an odder career than Stephen Hurlbut. He was born in South Carolina to Yankee parents, but fled north becoming a political power broker in Illinois. As a politician he was mostly a back … Continue reading
Space, “Western Theater” not the Final Frontier
(Editor’s Note: The ECW YouTube page will feature videos from Phill’s trip over the next few weeks, kicked off by this discussion, which is also available as an ECW Podcast.) Recently, I had the opportunity to visit a few battlefields … Continue reading
Posted in Battlefields & Historic Places, Civil War Trails, Emerging Civil War, Memory, Monuments, National Park Service, Photography, Preservation, Ties to the War, Western Theater
Tagged Alabama, Albert Sidney Johnston, Battle of Fort Donelson, Battle of Shiloh, Confederacy, Emerging Civil War, Fort Donelson National Battlefield, Friends of Vicksburg National Military Park, Kentucky, Mississippi, National Park Service, Phillip S. Greenwalt, Shiloh National Military Park, Siege of Vicksburg, Tennessee, Ulysse S. Grant, Western theater
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Ulysses S. Grant: Clausewitz’s Military Genius
ECW welcomes back guest author Nathan Provost The term “military genius” is often a label for an officer with high intelligence or the successful application of military theory in warfare. All too often, academic and public historians cite Grant as … Continue reading
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 … Continue reading
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 … Continue reading
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. … Continue reading
