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Outside of his pulpit, Bachelor Macartney spends most of his spare time in writing and historical research. A specialist on the Civil War, he has walked over almost every battlefield from Manassas to Shiloh. A good many of his 46 published books are written about historical subjects (e.g., a life of McClellan, several studies of Lincoln); the rest are sermons and devotional works...
...cashier, then threatened to kill a customer, and in the end picked up $10,000. But when he backed out for the getaway, it seemed that half the people in town were waiting. "It was just bang, bang, bang," said an awestruck witness. "It sounded like the Battle of Shiloh. Rifles, shotguns, pistols. Everybody in town had guns...
...According to the Bible, an angry prophet of Shiloh, who foretold the division of the kingdom of Israel...
...Bierce fled the family farm and the "unwashed savages," as he later called his parents, worked as a printer's devil for two years. When the Civil War broke out, he was among the first to enlist. Soldier Bierce did well; he served bravely at Shiloh and Chickamauga, marched into Georgia with Sherman, wound up a lieutenant. As a staff officer, he caught off-duty glimpses of such top brass as Sheridan and Grant. Of Grant's tippling, he recalled: "I don't think he took enough to comfort the enemy-not more than I did myself...
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...