Rethinking Shiloh : myth and memory /
Ulysses S. Grant once remarked that the Battle of Shiloh has been perhaps less understood, or, to state the case more accurately, more persistently misunderstood, than any other engagement ... during the entire rebellion. This book seeks to rectify these persistent myths and misunderstandings, argui...
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| Language: | English |
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Knoxville :
University of Tennessee Press,
2013
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
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| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
Table of Contents:
- "Difficult and broken ground" : the terrain factor at Shiloh
- To conquer or perish : the last hours of Albert Sidney Johnston
- Anatomy of an icon : Shiloh's hornet's nest in Civil War memory
- A case study in Civil War memory : Benjamin M. Prentiss as the hero of Shiloh
- Rewriting history : locating Lew Wallace's route of march to Shiloh
- Secession at Shiloh : Mississippi's convention delegates and their state's defense
- The forgotten inhabitants of Shiloh : a case study in a civilian-government relationship
- A case study in change : the New Deal's effect on Shiloh National Military Park
- History in the making : Shiloh : portrait of a battle fifty years later.
