Tag Archives: Shiloh
He Was A New Union Lieutenant at Shiloh. The Horrors He Witnessed Left Scars That Never Healed.
This article from the Winter 2022 issue of Civil War Times magazine contains an account from Lieutenant Ephraim Cutler Dawes, brother of Rufus Dawes of the 6th Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry, of the battle of Shiloh. “With his army paused at Pittsburg Landing, Tenn., in early April 1862, waiting the arrival of Maj. Gen. Don Carlos […]
The War for the Union: War Becomes Revolution 1862-1863
This is the sixth book in Allan Nevins’s magnum opus, The Ordeal of the Union. This book, Nevins tells us, ”takes up the narrative a four leaders step forward in powerful roles: Lincoln disclosing his plan for slavery, Stanton taking over the War Office, Grant delivering the first heavy blow in the West, and McClellan preparing […]
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