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Shiloh - in Hell before Night

By: University of Tennessee Press

Type: Softcover

Product Line: Historical Books (University of Tennessee Press)


Product Info

Title
Shiloh - in Hell before Night
Category
Author
James Lee McDonough
Publish Year
1977
Pages
260
Dimensions
6.5x9.5x1"
NKG Part #
2148036882
Type
Softcover

Description

Colorful, dramatic, blundering, and tragic – these are some of the adjectives that have been applied to the two-day engagement at Shiloh. This battle, which bears the biblical name meaning “place of peace,” was one of the bloodiest encounters of the Civil War. The Union colonel, whose words give the present book its title, foretold the losses when he told his men: “Fill your canteens Boys! Some of you will be in hell before night….”