The Generals of Shiloh: Character in Leadership, April 6-7, 1862

The author of The Generals of Gettysburg examines the characters and actions of the military leadership at this Tennessee Civil War battle.

"Character is destiny," wrote the Greek philosopher Heraclitus more than twenty-five centuries ago. Most writers of military history stress strategy and tactics at the expense of the character of their subjects. Larry Tagg remedies that oversight with The Generals of Shiloh, a unique and invaluable study of the high-ranking combat officers whose condu...