Offerings of Shiloh: An epic novel of the American Civil War, Battle of SHiloh, April 6th and 7th, 1862.
Hope is not a plan … Hope is not an answer
On a frigid cold and rain filled Sunday morning, April 6th, 1862, less than a year removed from the opening salvos of the American Civil War, two American armies fought each other beside the Tennessee River in southwestern ...
Offerings of Shiloh: An epic novel of the American Civil War, Battle of SHiloh, April 6th and 7th, 1862.
Hope is not a plan … Hope is not an answer
On a frigid cold and rain filled Sunday morning, April 6th, 1862, less than a year removed from the opening salvos of the American Civil War, two American armies fought each other beside the Tennessee River in southwestern Tennessee in the war to save the Union of the United States of America: the Union Army of the Tennessee, nearly 40,000 men strong, and the Confederate Army of the Mississippi, nearly 44,000 men strong.
Neither army would have chosen this ground, weather, day or time - Once the battle was joined, neither could withdraw.
Two armies, Americans all, young and old, inexperienced in the brutality of war, or the killing power of muskets and cannons, unleashed the most pitched, furious, ruthless and vicious conflict America had ever seen, at a place called Pittsburg Landing, on the fields surrounding a church that would forever bear the name of an epic struggle:
Shiloh
By the time the sun set on April 7th, the carnage of blood horrified a nation: 23,746 men killed, wounded or missing in less than 48 hours – more casualties than America had suffered in all her previous wars combined to that date.
23,746 men: 48 hours
Each man an individual with dreams and goals, ambitions and motives and fears forever shattered in countless acts of bravery, cowardice and death upon the fields of Shiloh.
Each man a story - a history - a sacrifice – an Offering...
Who were these men who fought and killed, bled and cried in agony, maimed forever and left to die upon the fields of Shiloh?
Historian and Award Winning Author Glenn Kleint persents an up close and personal exploration of the Battle of Shiloh. A tale that moves amongst the fears and courages, the horrors and hopes and dreams of fictional characters woven into the fabric of actual historical events to personalize their experiences in an early battle of the American Civil War: the Battle of Shiloh, April, 1862, horrified a nation when in just two days of fighting, more Americans were killed and wounded than had died in all the nation's wars to that date.
As an historian, Glenn Kleint understands and compels the reader to contemplate that the problem is not that so many have forgotten Shiloh and its deeper meaning to the fabric of the soul of a nation: the problem is that so few have ever known.
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Hope is not a plan … Hope is not an answer
On a frigid cold and rain filled Sunday morning, April 6th, 1862, less than a year removed from the opening salvos of the American Civil War, two American armies fought each other beside the Tennessee River in southwestern ...