Scapegoat of Shiloh: The Distortion of Lew Wallace's Record by U.S. Grant

A great controversy surrounds General Lew Wallace at the Battle of Shiloh. General U.S. Grant blamed Wallace for the huge number of casualties the Union suffered, citing a dilatory march and poor choice of route to the battlefield. Wallace was obsessed with these accusations his entire life and wrote Ben-Hur as much to work through the injustice of being labeled a scapegoat as for literary aspirations.

This book asserts that something entirely different may be at fault for the astonishing ...