The Road to Shiloh: Early Battles in the West
by David Nevin, Time-Life Books
Time-Life: The Civil War (4)
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A gripping, comprehensive account of the Civil War, including eyewitness testimony, profiles of key personalities, period photographs, illustrations and artifacts, and detailed battle maps. Fully researched, superbly written.Tags
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David Reinhardt Nevin was the author of many historical novels about American histroy, including Dream West.
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- Canonical title
- The Road to Shiloh: Early Battles in the West
- People/Characters
- Henry W. Allen; Jacob Ammen; Jesse J. Appler; Parker Bagley; Eustace H. Ball; Frederick Barnhart (show all 160); P. G. T. Beauregard; John T. Bell; William B. Bell; Henry H. Bennett; Josiah Bissell; Francis Preston Blair, Jr.; Montgomery Blair; Henry Boernstein; John S. Bowen; Braxton Bragg; John Cabell Breckinridge (as John Breckinridge); John H. Brinton; John Brown, abolitionist; Simon Bolivar Buckner; Don Carlos Buell; George Washington Cable; James R. Chalmers; Benjamin Franklin Cheatham (as Benjamin F. Cheatham); Patrick Ronayne Cleburne; James Coffey; Samuel Cooper; George Crittenden (as George B. Crittenden); Lucien Crooker; Charles Cruft; Wilbur Crummer (as Wilbur F. Crummer); Samuel R. Curtis; Ephraim C. Dawes; Cyrus Dickey; Daniel S. Donelson; Harry B. Doolittle (as Sergeant Doolittle, 2nd Iowa color guard); Basil Duke; James B. Eads; James F. Fagan; David Glasgow Farragut; John B. Floyd; Andrew H. Foote (as Andrew Hull Foote); Nathan Bedford Forrest; John W. Foster; John Charles Frémont; Speed S. Fry; John Gaddis; James A. Garfield; James L. Geddes; Henry Gentles; Randall Lee Gibson; Julia Dent Grant; Ulysses S. Grant; John G. Greenawalt; J. S. Hacker; Thomas Haines; Henry W. Halleck (as Henry Wager Halleck); Aaron B. Hardcastle; William J. Hardee; W. D. Harland; William Selby Harney; Isham Harris (as Isham G. Harris); Thomas Harris; Gus A. Henry, Jr.; Gustavus Henry; Andrew J. Hickenlooper; Jesse Hildebrand; Benjamin L. Hodge; Thomas D. Holliday; David Hunter; Stephen A. Hurlbut; Claiborne Fox Jackson; John K. Jackson; Albert Sidney Johnston; Thomas Jordan; Frederick Klinger; Thomas W. Knox; James Laning; Jacob G. Lauman; Albert Lehman; Abraham Lincoln; Robert M. Littler (as Captain Bob Littler, 2nd Iowa Infantry); Samuel H. Lockett; Henri Lovie; Nathaniel Lyon; John A. McArthur; George W. McBride; George B. McClellan; John A. McClernand; Ben McCulloch; Beriah Magoffin; Jeremiah Manasco; John S. Marmaduke; William 'Bull' Nelson; G. S. Page (as Corporal Page, 2nd Iowa color guard); Andrew S. Payne; Everett Peabody; S. L. Phelps; Gideon J. Pillow; Théophile Poilpot; Leonidas Polk; Samuel Pook; John Pope; William David Porter (as John Porter, commander of the Essex); James E. Powell; Benjamin M. Prentiss; Sterling Price; Isaac C. Pugh; Julius Raith; Floyd Ransom; Thomas Ransom; John A. Rawlins; John Rector; Albert Richardson; George Roberts; J. W. Robinson (as Corporal Robinson, 2nd Iowa color guard); John Rodgers; Lovell H. Rousseau; William R. Rowley; Daniel Ruggles; Israel P. Rumsey; A. M. Rutledge; John M. Schofield; Winfield Scott; John Seaton; William T. Shaw; J. O. Shelby (as Jo Shelby); William Tecumseh Sherman; Franz Sigel; Jack Slaymaker; Charles F. Smith; Thomas Snead; Alexander P. Stewart; Leander Stilwell; David Stuart; Jesse Taylor; Theo P. Terry; George H. Thomas; Jeff Thompson; John B. Thompson; William C. Thompson; Lloyd Tilghman; James M. Tuttle; Samuel Langhorne Clemens (Mark Twain); Voltaire Paine Twombly (as Corporal Twombly, 2nd Iowa color guard); Earl Van Dorn; James C. Veatch; Henry Walke; Ann Wallace; Lew Wallace; William H. L. Wallace; Elihu B. Washburne (as Elihu Washburne); A. C. Waterhouse; H. E. Weaver (as Corporal Weaver, 2nd Iowa color guard); Joseph D. Webster; Sterling A. M. Wood; D. W. Yandell; Richard Yates; Felix Zollicoffer; J. H. Churcher (as Corporal Churcher, 2nd Iowa color guard)
- Important places
- Albany, Kentucky, USA; Allegheny Mountains, USA; Appalachian Mountains; Arkansas River, USA; Barbourville, Kentucky, USA; Barren River, Kentucky, USA (show all 88); Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA; Bloody Hill, Missouri, USA; Bloody Pond, Shiloh National Military Park, Tennessee. USA; Bowling Green, Kentucky, USA; Cairo, Illinois, USA; Camp Douglas, Illinois, USA; Camp Randall, Wisconsin, USA; Camp Smith, Illinois, USA; Carondolet, Missouri, USA; Carthage, Missouri, USA; Chattanooga, Tennessee, USA; Chicago, Illinois, USA; Cincinnati, Ohio, USA; Columbus, Kentucky, USA; Corinth, Mississippi, USA; Corn Creek, Missouri, USA; Crump's Landing, Tennessee, USA; Cumberland Gap, Appalachian Mountains, USA; Cumberland River, Tennessee, USA; Davidson County, Tennessee, USA; Decatur, Tennessee, USA; Dill's Branch, Tennessee, USA; Dover, Tennessee, USA; Fallen Timbers, Shiloh National Military Park, Tennessee, USA; Fort Defiance, Illinois, USA; Fort Donelson, Tennessee, USA; Fort Riley, Kansas, USA; Galena, Illinois, USA; Galveston, Texas, USA; Green River, Kentucky, USA; Hannibal, Missouri, USA; Hardin County, Tennessee, USA; Hopkinsville, Kentucky, USA; Hornet's Nest, Shiloh National Military Park, Tennessee, USA; Illinois River, USA; Island Number 8, Mississippi River, USA; Island Number 9, Mississippi River, USA; Island Number 10, Mississippi River, USA; Jackson, Tennessee, USA; James River, Missouri, USA; Jasper County, Missouri, USA; Jefferson City, Missouri, USA; Kansas City, Missouri, USA; Knoxville, Tennessee, USA; Lexington, Missouri, USA; Lick Creek, Tennessee, USA; Logan's Cross Roads, Kentucky, USA; Louisville, Kentucky, USA; Madison, Wisconsin, USA; Madrid Bend, Mississippi River, USA; Memphis, Tennessee, USA; Mill Springs, Kentucky, USA; Mobile, Alabama, USA; Mound City, Missouri, USA; Muddy River, Kentucky, USA; Murfreesboro, Tennessee, USA; Nashville, Tennessee, USA; Neosho, Missouri, USA; New Madrid, Missouri, USA; New Orleans, Louisiana, USA; Ohio River, USA; Ottawa, Illinois, USA; Owl Creek, Tennessee, USA; Paducah, Kentucky, USA; Pea Ridge, Arkansas, USA; Pittsburg Landing, Tennessee, USA; Point Pleasant, Missouri, USA; Quincy, Illinois, USA; Reelfoot Lake, Tennessee, USA; Richmond, Virginia, USA; St. Louis, Missouri, USA; Shiloh Branch, Tennessee, USA; Shiloh Church, Tennessee, USA; Shiloh National Military Park, Tennessee, USA; Snake Creek, Tennessee, USA; Springfield, Missouri, USA; Sunken Road, Shiloh National Military Park, Tennessee, USA; Tiptonville, Tennessee, USA; Vicksburg, Mississippi, USA; Watson's Landing, Missouri, USA; Weston, Missouri, USA; Wilson's Bayou, Missouri, USA
- Important events
- Mexican-American War (1846 | 1848); American Civil War (1861 | 1865); Battle of Carthage (1861-07-05); Battle of Wilson's Creek (1861-08-10); Battle of Fort Henry (1862-02-06); Battle of Fort Donelson (1862-02-11 | 1862-02-16) (show all 8); Battle of Shiloh (1862-04-06 | 1862-04-07); Battle of Corinth, Mississippi (1862-04-29 | 1862-05-30)
- First words
- In the autumn of 1861, Brigadier General William Tecumseh Sherman was ordered west on a mission that was - he wrote his brother, Ohio Senator John Sherman - both diplomatic and military.
- Quotations
- Major General Henry Wager Halleck, the abrasive commander of the Federal Department of Missouri, was in the habit of scratching his elbows while thinking. It was as if - said Secretary of the Navy Gideon Welles, who detested ... (show all)him - Halleck's elbows were the seat of his mental process.
Brigadier General Lloyd Tilghman, in command at Fort Henry, fought valiantly before giving up. When he came aboard the Cincinnati to surrender, Flag Officer Foote said, "Come, general, you have lost your dinner, and th... (show all)e steward has just told me mine is ready." They walked together into the cabin.
No terms except unconditional and immediate surrender can be accepted. I propose to move immediately upon your works.
I am, sir, very respectfully, your obediant servant,
U.S. Grant
"Fill your canteens, boys! Some of you will be in hell before night and you'll need water!"
- Colonel Isaac C. Pugh, 41st Illinois - Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)Beauregard did still have the army he had withdrawn from Corinth - a move that he proclaimed "equivalent to a brilliant victory." But unless the Confederates could launch a successful counteroffensive, the West would be lost.
- Original language
- English
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