McDonough\u27s Sarah’s surrender (Book Review)

A review of McDonough, V. (2016). Sarah’s surrender. Uhrichville, OH: Shiloh Run Press. 318 pp. $14.99. ISBN 978162836953

Shiloh 1862

Rewriting the Shiloh Narrative For those coming to the subject of the Shiloh Campaign for the first time, readers will find in Shiloh 1862 an accessible, highly skilled, readable introduction to this perennially fascinating operation. Winston Graham has obviously found the high d...

Shiloh and the Western Campaign of 1862

Shiloh and the Course of the Civil War Long before Shiloh and the Western Campaign of 1862 appeared in print, personnel associated with Shiloh National Military Park were aware of the scholarly work of O. Edward Cunningham pertaining to that battle. Studying under the renowned hist...

A Terrain And Meteorological Analysis Of The Battlefield At Shiloh, Tennessee

A terrain analysis of the Shiloh Battlefield is presented in conjunction with a meteorological assessment of the conditions prevalent during the battle. The intent of the analysis was to ascertain the effect that conditions might have played upon the strategic and tactical actions prior to, and during the Battle of Shiloh, 1862. The significance of this study was to determine the influence of meteorological and geographical factors upon the two armies. Values for temperature and precipitation were estimated using the PDSI and data from NOAA. According to the model it was a very wet year. Weather and geography clearly played a role in how and when the Battle of Shiloh was fought. Due to the high number of casualties, however, the Battle of Shiloh would change how warfare would be conducted in the United States

Rethinking Shiloh: Myth and Memory

How We Remember and Why We Remember Timothy B. Smith’s Rethinking Shiloh: Myth and Memory is a collection of nine essays about the Battle of Shiloh. All of them are authored by Smith, once a ranger at Shiloh National Military Park and now an instructor at University of Tennessee, M...

Fog of War; Cloud of Memory: The Fifty-Third Ohio Volunteer Infantry Shiloh\u27s Story

The Fifty-Third Ohio Volunteer Infantry was created on September 6, 1861. Men throughout the southern counties of Ohio flocked to Jackson, Ohio to join the new regiment. Poor leadership, supply issues, and inexperience immediately plagued the Fifty-Third Ohio. The Ohioans first experienced enemy fire on the morning of April 6, 1862 at the Battle of Shiloh. Throughout the war, the Fifty-Third Ohio fought at many battles including Vicksburg, Chattanooga, and Atlanta. More than any other conflict, the regiment’s first combat experience remained linked to its reputation and honor. During the opening fight at Shiloh, the regiment was ordered to retreat by its commanding officer, Colonel J.J. Appler. However, two companies remained on the line and order was restored to the majority of the regiment through the efforts of Ephraim C. Dawes, James Percy, Wells S. Jones, and others. Even though the regiment remained heavily engaged in the fight, and continued to engage the enemy the following day, it was publicly berated for cowardice by its division commander, General William Tecumseh Sherman. Union leadership’s desire to clear themselves from the accusation of surprise at Shiloh created scapegoats out of regiments like the Fifty-Third Ohio. Due in large part to the concepts of honor and manhood during the Civil War Era, the men of the regiment sought to clear their individual honor and collective reputation from the perceived stain of Shiloh. Newspapers and Union leadership initially derided the regiment for Shiloh. Even after the blame for the early withdraw was attached directly to Appler, the Fifty-Third Ohio was not entirely free from the accusations and innuendos of Shiloh. The regiment’s successful service later in the war was unjustly tainted by the lingering perceptions of its first combat experience at Shiloh. Unfortunately, the reputation of the Fifty-Third Ohio remained frozen in negativity due to the lack of major scholarly interpretations on Shiloh during the first half of the Twentieth Century

Shiloh

The first impression is that this could not have been a battlefield..

Shiloh Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church, Lancaster SC Records - Accession 577

This collection consists of photocopies of church session minutes from the Shiloh Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church in Lancaster, SC extending from 1868 to about 1932. The collection also includes registers of baptisms, communicants, marriages, members, pastors, elders, deacons, and deaths from 1841-1970. Shiloh was organized in about 1802, however the church can trace its beginnings to the late 1700s preaching post known as Black Jack. Shiloh is the oldest Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church in Lancaster County, SC.https://digitalcommons.winthrop.edu/manuscriptcollection_findingaids/1690/thumbnail.jp

Poetry: On Noting at Shiloh the Contiguous Graves of Six Union Flag Bearers ; Et al.

Poetry On Noting at Shiloh the Contiguous Graves of Six Union Flag Bearers, Robert Cowser, Ph.D. On Having Been Shown a Crescent of Union Graves at Shiloh, Robert Cowser, Ph.D