Word: shiloh
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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...
...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...
...that field, you're Beauregard's artillery. . . . And Bea, you go over there in those trees and don't move until I tell you." Tunisia was far from wooded Georgia and bloody Chickamauga, far from the tableland beside the Tennessee where Grant won the battle of Shiloh in spite of himself, far even from the foreign forest of Belleau where the living Marines grew so tired they lay down beside their dead friends and slept under shell fire. Tunisia seemed another world, another time almost-it was the place where the Battle of Zama was fought...