* Over 30 Large Battlefield Maps
* Lots of Photos and Illustrations
* Includes Google Map Links to Actual Battlefield Locations
* Includes Casualty Charts and Graphs
The Battle of Shiloh can be difficult to follow because, well, it was so darned messy! This was not a fight like Gettysburg or Antietam where the armies more or less knew what they were doing. With the exception of a few West Point graduates at the top of the command structure, almost everyone on the field at Shiloh was an amateur at the business of war – mostly local lawyers and politicians leading tens of thousands of their hometown boys into the gates of hell. What’s amazing is the amount of damage these amateurs were able and willing to do to each other in just 18 hours or so of active fighting. For those who survived the inferno without running and without losing any important body parts,
Shiloh served as an excellent on-the-job training site for many future war leaders. But they certainly left a mess for those of us writers trying to explain the battle a century or so later. For possibly that reason, many books on Shiloh tend to discuss the politics and battles leading up to Shiloh in such depth that it’s not until a hundred pages or so that anyone fires a shot at Shiloh. In this book I’ve confined the political foreplay to the first chapter. After that we get down to the business of discussing the battle itself, in all of its confusion. I’ve dispensed with footnotes, since this work is not meant to be a scholarly treatise, though I can back up any part of the book with references if needed – almost all of them came from the books listed in the References section.
I consider myself a ‘splainer’ not a historian, though I love Civil War history. I admire those historians who came before me and did the in-depth research on the battle, but my object is to synthesize their findings and explain them in an interesting way that readers can understand. A pet peeve of mine with books about battles is that I’m often unsure which, if any, map relates to whatever is being discussed in the text. I hate thumbing through 20 pages to find the map that matches the text! Basically, when I’m reading about a battle, I want a map handy that shows me exactly where that location is on the battlefield, how it relates to the overall battlefield, which way the units were facing, which units were to the left or right, and what the participants looked like if any photos are available. Furthermore I’d like to be able to take those maps and walk the current battlefield, knowing what happened where and when. For that reason I’ve included maps in almost every chapter, all big enough to be visible from outer space. Since there weren’t many photos taken of the Shiloh field after the battle, I’ve settled for illustrations, which are generously sprinkled throughout the book.
For those of you who read this book, my goal is that you’ll come away with a better understanding, not only of what happened there, but a better understanding of what it was really like for the men and boys who fought in that terrible battle at Shiloh.
Jack Kunkel
قائمة المحتويات
Table of Contents
Forward
About the Maps
Chapter 1 The Road To Shiloh
Chapter 2 The Union Encampment
Chapter 3 The March to Shiloh
Chapter 4 First Clash
Chapter 5 Prentiss Reinforces
Chapter 6 Attack On Prentiss’ Camp
Chapter 7 The Fighting Spreads East
Chapter 8 Sherman Attacked
Chapter 9 Fight at Shiloh Branch
Chapter 10 Mc Clernand Joins the Fight
Chapter 11 Collapse of the Union Right
Chapter 12 Union Counterattack
Chapter 13 Sarah Bell’s Cotton Field
Chapter 14 The Peach Orchard
Chapter 15 Attack on the Union Left
Chapter 16 The Hornet’s Nest
Chapter 17 Collapse of the Federal Left
Chapter 18 Surrender at Hell’s Hollow
Chapter 19 Grant’s Last Line
Chapter 20 Lew Wallace Finally Arrives
Chapter 21 Buell Advances
Chapter 22 Confederate Counterattacks
Chapter 23 Grant Attacks
Chapter 24 Sowell Field
Chapter 25 Final Attacks & Withdrawal
Chapter 26 Aftermath
Appendix A – Order of Battle
Appendix B – Casualty Lists
Appendix C – Army Organization
About the Author
References
Index
Copyright
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About the Maps
Books present some challenges in displaying maps, so I thought I’d take a moment to explain how they’re set up in this book.
First of all, there are two general kinds of maps – book maps and online maps.
Book Maps
You will find three types of maps within this book.
1. Close up maps
2. Location maps
3. Overall maps
Almost every chapter contains a ‘Close-up’ map that pertains to the subject being discussed. But to give you an idea of where that close-up section of the battle fits into the rest of the battlefield, I’ve also included a smaller, ‘Location map’ somewhere near the Close-up map. The small square in the Location map shows where the Close-up map fits into the entire battlefield.
Finally, because there were usually several battles going on at Shiloh at the same time, I’ve included an Overall map at the end of most chapters that shows you where all the units on the field were at this particular time.
Samples of all these maps are shown here.
Online Maps
There are also two types of online maps – ie Google maps you can view online.
1. Maps on the website: Civil War Battles.us
2. Chapter map links to various field locations.
To make it easy to view these maps, I’ve included instructions in the following pages on how to scan the Optical Character Recognition (OCR) barcodes using your smart phone or tablet.
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