Ulysses S. Grant once remarked that the Battle of Shiloh “has been perhapsless understood, or, to state the case more accurately, more persistentlymisunderstood, than any other engagement . . . during
This book traces the history of Civil War battlefield preservation from 1861 to 2015 through outright preservation at the federal, state, local, and private levels, as well as federal historic pre
At the mention of Shiloh, most tend to think of two particularly bloody and crucial days in April 1862. The complete story, however, encompasses much more history than that of the battle itself. While
Around the turn of the last century, feelings of patriotism, nationalism, and sectional reconciliation swept the United States and led to a nationwide memorialization of American military history in g
A Chickamauga Memorial tells the full and fascinating story of how the country's first federally preserved national military park came into being and how it paved the way for all that came afterwards,
