Winner of the Richard B. Harwell Award, Tennessee History Book
Award and the Doughlas Southall Freeman Award A critical moment in
the Civil War, the Battle of Shiloh has been the subject of many
books. However, none has told the story of Shiloh as Timothy Smith
does in this volume, the first comprehensive history of the two-day
battle in April 1862-a battle so fluid and confusing that its true
nature has eluded a clear narrative telling until now. Unfolding
over April 6th and 7th, the Battle of Shiloh produced the most
sprawling and bloody field of combat since the Napoleonic wars,
with an outcome that set the Confederacy on the road to defeat.
Contrary to previous histories, Smith tells us, the battle was not
won or lost on the first day, but rather in the decision-making of
the night that followed and in the next day's fighting. Devoting
unprecedented attention to the details of that second day, his book
shows how the Union's triumph was far less assured, and much harder
to achieve, than has been acknowledged. Smith also employs a new
organization strategy to clarify the action. By breaking his
analysis of both days' fighting into separate phases and sectors,
he makes it much easier to grasp what was happening in each combat
zone, why it unfolded as it did, and how it related to the broader
tactical and operational context of the entire battle. The
battlefield's diverse and challenging terrain also comes in for new
scrutiny. Through detailed attention to the terrain's major
features-most still visible at the Shiloh National Military
Park-Smith is able to track their specific and considerable
influence on the actions, and their consequences, over those
forty-eight hours. The experience of the soldiers finally finds its
place here too, as Smith lets us hear, as never before, the voices
of the common man, whether combatant or local civilian, caught up
in a historic battle for their lives, their land, their honor, and
their homes. ""We must this day conquer or perish,"" Confederate
General Albert Sidney Johnston declared on the morning of April 6,
1862. His words proved prophetic, and might serve as an epitaph for
the larger war, as we see fully for the first time in this
unparalleled and surely definitive history of the Battle of Shiloh.
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