An edition of Shiloh: bloody April (1974)

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An edition of Shiloh: bloody April (1974)

Shiloh: bloody April.

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"Though the battle was crucial to the outcome of the American Civil War, the full story of Shiloh has never until now been told. Commonly considered a draw, Shiloh represented in fact a major reversal for the Confederacy -- a Confederacy that mounted at the outset one of the most incredible surprise attacks in American history and came within a hair's breadth of inflicting a major disaster upon the North. Yet circumstances common to war -- confusions, misjudgments, human frailities -- resulted in eventual defeat. Depending entirely upon original sources, Mr. Sword views this bitter conflict from both sides in a blow-by-blow, shot-by-shot account that is as dramatic as it is comprehensive and authoritative. Shiloh was a battle that took critical measure of two of America's most famous soldiers, Ulysses S. Grant and William Tecumseh Sherman. Furthermore, Shiloh saw the death (perhaps at the hands of his own men) of one of the highest-ranking American generals ever to die on the battlefield, Albert Sidney Johnston, C.S.A., and cost the lives of nearly 4,000 other Americans. Despite the decisive importance of the battle of Shiloh, it has until now remained a virtually undiscovered subject for study. The reasons are not hard to find. They are simply that the bitterness of the controversy that Shiloh engendered plus the complexity of the battle itself resulted in contradictory currents that obsured both the facts and their significance. But now Wiley Sword has put it right in a masterful reconstruction that is also an original and valuable contribution to American history"--Jacket.

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Publisher
Morrow
Language
English
Pages
519

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Shiloh: bloody April.
1974, Morrow
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Edition Notes

Bibliography: p. 463-470.

Published in
New York

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
973.7/33
Library of Congress
E473.54 .S96, E473.54.S96

The Physical Object

Pagination
xx, 519 p.
Number of pages
519

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL5046990M
Internet Archive
shilohbloodyapri00swor
ISBN 10
0688002714
LCCN
74007455
OCLC/WorldCat
898000
Library Thing
321615
Goodreads
1737004

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