Echoes of Shiloh and Maine
Tomorrow, April 6, marks 161 years since Confederate Gen. Albert Sidney Johnston pitched into Union Gen. Ulysses Simpson Grant in the scrub woods surrounding a rural Tennessee church named “Shiloh.” Named for that church, the two-day battle caused a shocking 23,000-plus casualties, with the hard-up-for-men South losing a bit more than 13,000 soldiers, including the […]