"Shiloh": as Seen by a Private Soldier With Some Personal Reminiscences
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"The fine six-horse teams began turning round with the caissons, charges were being rammed home, and the guns pointed toward the dense ranks of the enemy, when, from right in front, a dense puff of smoke, a tearing of shot and shell through the trees, a roar from half a dozen cannon, hitherto unseen, and our brave battery was knocked into smithereens. Great limbs of trees, torn off by cannon shot, came down on horse and rider, crushing them to earth. Shot and shell struck cannon, upsetting them; caissons exploded them. Not a shot was fired from our side." By the spring of 1862, the majority of Americans still believed that the Civil War, "would be over by Christmas." The previous summer in Virginia, Bull Run, with nearly 5,000 casualties, had been horrific, but then word came from a remote area of the wildernesses of Southwest Tennessee of an alarming battle costing 23,000 casualties, most of them within a single day - more in total than had resulted from the entire American Revolution. As author Warren Olney recounts in this dramatic, intense first person account, the Battle of Shiloh would singlehandedly alter the psyche of the military, politicians, and American people--North and South--about what they had unleashed by creating a Civil War.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:1514337959
ISBN13:9781514337950
Release Date:June 2015
Publisher:CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Length:34 Pages
Weight:0.22 lbs.
Dimensions:9.0" x 0.1" x 6.0"
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