Our Fathers at Shiloh (eBook)

A Step-by-Step Account of One of the Greatest Battles of the Civil War

Jack L Kunkel (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2020
244 Seiten
Distributed By Ingram Spark (Verlag)
978-1-0878-6738-0 (ISBN)

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* Over 30 Large Battlefield Maps* Lots of Photos and Illustrations* Includes Google Map Links to Actual Battlefield Locations* Includes Casualty Charts and GraphsThe 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. Whats 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 its not until a hundred pages or so that anyone fires a shot at Shiloh. In this book Ive 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. Ive 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 Im 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 Im 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 Id like to be able to take those maps and walk the current battlefield, knowing what happened where and when. For that reason Ive included maps in almost every chapter, all big enough to be visible from outer space. Since there werent many photos taken of the Shiloh field after the battle, Ive settled for illustrations, which are generously sprinkled throughout the book.For those of you who read this book, my goal is that youll 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

Inhalt

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    McClernand 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: CivilWarBattles.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.

 

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 14.2.2020
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► 20. Jahrhundert bis 1945
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte
• Schlagworte: Albert Sidney Johnson • Hell's Hollow • Hornet's Nest • Pittsburg Landing • The Sunken Road • U.S. Grant • William Sherman
• ISBN-10: 1-0878-6738-X / 108786738X
• ISBN-13: 978-1-0878-6738-0 / 9781087867380