Guns of Shiloh
The blood-soaked fields of Shiloh await. After the humiliating defeat at Bull Run, the Union army reels under doubt, and the shadows of the Capitol dome seem impossibly far. Young Dick Mason, our intrepid observer, finds himself thrust into the chaos of a nation tearing itself apart. This is the Civil War as it was lived by those who fought it, not as it appears in textbooks. Altsheler, a master of historical adventure, captures the visceral terror of artillery barrage, the strange brotherhood forged in campfires between battles, and the terrible mathematics of a war that counted its dead by the thousands. Dick witnesses the Western campaign unfold, from the desperate days after First Bull Run through the grinding horrors that would define this conflict. For readers who discovered history through its heroes and villains, this book remains a vital portal into America's defining wound.
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