Word: shiloh
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...breathing space in his career. He was a lawyer, editor, poet, author, lecturer, a major general in the Union army, a major general in the Mexican army, a minister to Turkey, the organizer of an insurance company, a fortune-hunter, a hero. He was ruined by the Battle of Shiloh and again by postwar politics; ruined again by an attempt to organize a Mexican army. But after all his misfortunes, he wrote Ben-Hur which, both as a novel and as a play, and later as a movie, exercised a genuinely magnetic hold over the American imagination...
Wallace was wounded by the Battle of Shiloh as truly as its physical victims. He had acted with great speed and intelligence at the beginning of the Civil War, won promotion handily, justified it in the first battles. Then on April 6, 1862, he was camped at Crump's Landing on the Tennessee River, in command of the 3rd Division, while Grant assembled his divisions at Pittsburg Landing, six miles away. Grant did not know that Albert Sidney Johnston, with 40,000 men, was near. At dawn lightning struck, and Grant's Army of the Tennessee was nearly...
...been molded by battle and distilled by bottle. At the outbreak of what is referred to as "the late unpleasantness between the states," 9,000 students had matriculated at the colonnades of the Jefferson rotunda. Of these 2,481, almost 30 percent, fell at Chancellorsville and the Wilderness, at Shiloh and Gettysburg, and many are buried within the famed serpentine brick walls of the 500-acre campus...
When Garfield spoke, the struggle between North and South was but three years over. Many of its men and all of its memories were alive. The names of its battles were like a vast orchestration of the years of war. Manassas and Shiloh, Antietam and Gettysburg, Vicksburg and the Wilderness-the names would be long remembered. Seventy-five years later, on another Memorial Day, the nation was again at war. Again it had become, not merely a people with an army, but a people in arms. The old place names still lingered in the American mind, but now there were...
Here in New York, researcher Margaret Quimby correlated all this material and ran down 101 other points. For example, I saw one very interesting three-page report of hers on the Civil War battles of Shiloh and Chickamauga-which found its way into three published lines. (And of course the file held dozens of reports from the AP-a service which goes to no other magazine except ours...