Word: shiloh
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Melville could not get a publisher for his first sheaf of poems, but in 1866 Harper's published a collection called Battle Pieces. It was a distinctly civilian poetizing of the Civil War, notable for the rhyming of "Shiloh" with "lie low," and such sentiments...
...viewer is stereophonically there at the Battle of Shiloh, with charging infantry, rearing horses, rumbling guns. Afterward, Peppard, thirsty, dazed and lost, is drinking water from a stream when he encounters a grizzled young Rebel (Russ Tamblyn). "Tastes funny?" asks Tamblyn slyly. Just then a rocket flash reveals the reason: the water is pink with blood...
...under fire, to endure the privation, hardship and danger of the campaign for months on end, and to send to the illustrated newspapers that employed them rough and hasty sketches whose chief purpose was to cue the wood engraver back home. From Fort Sumter to Appomattox-at Bull Run, Shiloh, Antietam, Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, Chickamauga, Missionary Ridge and the Wilderness-they recorded the bloody course of the conflict with a vitality that has earned them a unique and permanent place in the annals of the press...
...first battles Grant was repeatedly taken by surprise. He was beaten at Belmont and just barely held the field at Fort Donelson and Shiloh. These near disasters taught him a second lesson: "In every battle there may come a moment when each side is fought out and ready to quit." At that moment, victory goes to the man who attacks. His determination was always to destroy the enemy, not just to defeat him, and his terms of "unconditional surrender" have often been part of U.S. strategy since...