Rethinking Shiloh: Myth and Memory

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Notes Preface The essays cited in notes 3–11 have been reprinted in this volume in slightly different form by permission of the original publishers. 1. Ulysses S. Grant, “The Battle of Shiloh,” in Battles and Leaders of the Civil War, 4 vols., ed. Robert U. Johnson and Clarence C. Buel (New York: Century, 1884–87), 1:465. 2. Timothy B. Smith, The Untold Story of Shiloh: The Battle and the Battlefield (Knoxville: Univ. of Tennessee Press, 2006). 3. Timothy B. Smith, “‘Difficult and Broken Ground’: The Terrain Factor at Shiloh,” Tennessee Historical Quarterly 70, no. 3 (Fall 2011): 170–95.© The Tennessee Historical Society. 4. Timothy B. Smith, “To Conquer or Perish: The Last Hours of Albert Sidney Johnston,” in Confederate Generals in the Western Theater: Essays on America’s Civil War, vol. 3, ed. Lawrence Lee Hewitt and Arthur W. Bergeron Jr. (Knoxville: Univ. of Tennessee Press, 2011), 21–37. 5. Timothy B. Smith, “Anatomy of an Icon: Shiloh’s Hornet’s Nest in Civil War Memory,” in The Shiloh Campaign, ed. Steven E. Woodworth (Carbondale: Southern Illinois Univ. Press, 2009), 55–76. 6. Timothy B. Smith, “Shiloh’s False Hero,” Civil War Times 47, no. 6 (Dec. 2008): 28–35. 7. Timothy B. Smith, “Why Lew Was Late,” Civil War Times 46, no. 10 (Jan. 2008): 30–37. 8. Timothy B. Smith, “Secession at Shiloh: Mississippi’s Convention Delegates and Their State’s Defense,” Hallowed Ground 13, no. 1 (Spring 2012): 16–22. 9. Timothy B. Smith, “The Forgotten Inhabitants of Shiloh: A Case Study in a Civilian-Government Relationship,” Tennessee Historical Quarterly 67, no. 1 (Spring 2008): 36–55. © The Tennessee Historical Society. 164 Notes to Pages xiv–5 10. Timothy B. Smith, “A Case Study in Change: The New Deal’s Effect on Shiloh National Military Park,” Tennessee Historical Quarterly 66, no. 2 (Summer 2007): 126–43. © The Tennessee Historical Society. 11. Timothy B. Smith, “History in the Making: Shiloh: Portrait of a Battle Fifty Years Later,” Tennessee Historical Quarterly 65, no. 2 (Summer 2006): 147–61.© The Tennessee Historical Society. 1. “Difficult and Broken Ground” 1. War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, 128 vols. (Washington DC: Government Printing Office, 1880–91), ser. 1, vol. 10, pt. 1:464–67 (hereafter cited as OR; all references are to series 1). 2. Warren E. Grabau, Ninety-Eight Days: A Geographer’s View of the Vicksburg Campaign (Knoxville: Univ. of Tennessee Press, 2000), xv–xvii; James F. Gentsch, “A Geographic Analysis of the Battle of Shiloh” (master’s thesis, Memphis State Univ., 1994), 29–31. For Champion Hill, see Timothy B. Smith, Champion Hill: Decisive Battle for Vicksburg (New York: Savas Beatie, 2004). For a broader look at environmental history, see Ted Steinberg, Down to Earth: Nature’s Role in American History (New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 2002) and Louis S. Warren, ed. American Environmental History (New York: Wiley-Blackwell, 2003). 3. John Keegan, The Military Geography of the American Civil War (Gettysburg, PA: Gettysburg College, 1997); Grabau, Ninety-Eight Days; Robert K. Krick, Civil War Weather in Virginia (Tuscaloosa: Univ. of Alabama Press, 2007). See Harold A. Winters, with Gerald Galloway, William Reynolds, and David Rhyne, Battling the Elements: Weather and Terrain in the Conduct of War (Baltimore : Johns Hopkins Univ. Press, 1998) for a standard text on military terrain. 4. James Lee McDonough, Shiloh: In Hell Before Night (Knoxville: Univ. of Tennessee Press, 1977), 50; O. Edward Cunningham, Shiloh and the Western Campaign of 1862, ed. Gary D. Joiner and Timothy B. Smith (New York: Savas Beatie, 2007), 85–87; Wiley Sword, Shiloh: Bloody April, rev. ed. (Dayton, Ohio: Morningside Bookshop, 2001), 26–27; Larry J. Daniel, Shiloh: The Battle That Changed the Civil War (New York: Simon and Shuster, 1997), 102; David W. Reed, The Battle of Shiloh and the Organizations Engaged, 2nd ed. (Washington DC: Government Printing Office, 1909), 9; Gentsch, “Geographic Analysis of the Battle of Shiloh.” 5. Smith, “Forgotten Inhabitants of Shiloh,” 42. 6. For the width of the Civil War–era river, see Reed Map, First Day, 1900, Series 6, Box 1, Archives, Shiloh National Military Park, Shiloh, Tenn. (hereafter cited as SNMP). 7. Ibid. 8. Ibid. Notes to Pages 5–14 165 9. Ibid. 10. Ibid. There is some debate as to whether there was a bridge or just a ford over Lick Creek during the battle...