Rethinking Shiloh : myth and memory / Timothy B. Smith.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Smith, Timothy B., 1974-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Shiloh, Battle of, Tenn., 1862--Historiography.

Shiloh, Battle of, Tenn., 1862.

Shiloh National Military Park (Tenn. and Miss.)--History.

Shiloh National Military Park (Tenn. and Miss.).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (217 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Knoxville : University of Tennessee Press, c2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Ulysses S. Grant once remarked that the Battle of Shiloh "has been perhapsless understood, or, to state the case more accurately, more persistentlymisunderstood, than any other engagement . . . during the entire rebellion."In Rethinking Shiloh, Timothy B. Smith seeks to rectify these persistentmyths and misunderstandings, arguing that some of Shiloh's story is eithernot fully examined or has been the result of a limited and narrow collectivememory established decades ago. Continuing the work he began in TheUntold Story of Shiloh, Smith delves

Contents:

"Difficult and broken ground" : the terrain factor at Shiloh

To conquer or perish : the last hours of Albert Sidney Johnston

Anatomy of an icon : Shiloh's hornet's nest in Civil War memory

A case study in Civil War memory : Benjamin M. Prentiss as the hero of Shiloh

Rewriting history : locating Lew Wallace's route of march to Shiloh

Secession at Shiloh : Mississippi's convention delegates and their state's defense

The forgotten inhabitants of Shiloh : a case study in a civilian-government relationship

A case study in change : the New Deal's effect on Shiloh National Military Park

History in the making : Shiloh : portrait of a battle fifty years later.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781572339880

1572339888

OCLC:

841514903