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by Timothy B. Smith

Author:	Timothy B. Smith
Subcategory:	Americas
Language:	English
Publisher:	Univ of Tennessee Pr (March 1, 2004)
Pages:	179 pages
Category:	History
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In his book "This Great Battlefield of Shiloh" Dr. Timothy Smith discusses the establishment and history of the Shiloh National . His stresses the remote location of Shiloh and the lack of roads early in the 20th Century

In his book "This Great Battlefield of Shiloh" Dr. Timothy Smith discusses the establishment and history of the Shiloh National Battlefield. Dr Smith holds a PhD in history from Mississippi State and is a park ranger at Shiloh. His stresses the remote location of Shiloh and the lack of roads early in the 20th Century. Most material needed to be shipped on the Tennessee River to the site of Pittsburgh Landing, a key feature of the Battlefield.

This Great Battlefield of Shiloh: History, Memory, and the Establishment of a Civil War National Military Park (Voices . Smith holds a PhD in history from Mississippi State University and is a former ranger at Shiloh National Military Park. He currently teaches at the University of Tennessee.

This Great Battlefield of Shiloh: History, Memory, and the Establishment of a Civil War National Military Park (Voices of the Civil War). Smith is the author of an earlier study of the establishment of Shiloh National Military Park, "This Great Battlefield of Shiloh. With this book of essays and another book, "Shiloh and the Western Campaign of 1862" soon to be published, Smith is establishing himself as an authority on Shiloh and its aftermath.

The 1894 establishment of the Shiloh National Military Park, for example, grew out of an effort by veterans themselves to preserve and protect the site of one of the Civil War s most important engagements. ISBN13:9781572335837. Release Date:September 2006.

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National Military Park, Tennessee National Park Service Historical Handbook, series 10 (Washington, . Duke, Gen. Basil W. Morgan’s Cavalry Was at Shiloh. Confederate Veteran, vol. xiii, no. 5 (May 1905). Duke, John K. History of the Fifty-third Regiment. --. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2004. Shiloh’s False Hero. Civil War Times, vol. 47, no. 6, December 5, 2008, 28–35. The Untold Story of Shiloh: The Battle and the Battlefield. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2006.

Visiting Shiloh National Military Park last Fourth of July weekend, I was apprehensive . Now, as in 1862, Shiloh is a seriously isolated place Smith dedicates his book to the father of the Shiloh park, the indefatigable David W. Reed.

Visiting Shiloh National Military Park last Fourth of July weekend, I was apprehensive about having to wade through crowds to see the Hornet’s Nest, the Peach Orchard, the Sunken Road, and other highlights of the Tennessee battlefield. I needn’t have worried. Now, as in 1862, Shiloh is a seriously isolated place. Timothy B. Smith, a historian on the staff of the park, even titles his first chapter Isolation. Shiloh was so hard to reach that General William T. Sherman, camping there on April 5, 1862, scoffed at the idea that Confederate troops might be nearby. Smith dedicates his book to the father of the Shiloh park, the indefatigable David W.

history, memory, and the establishment of a Civil War national military .

history, memory, and the establishment of a Civil War national military park. This book represents an important addition to the growing body of work on the history of national remembrance. The 1894 establishment of the Shiloh National Military Park, for example, grew out of an effort by veterans themselves to preserve and protect the site of one of the Civil War’s most important engagements. Returning to the Pittsburg Landing battlefield, Shiloh veterans organized themselves to push the Federal government into establishing a park to honor both the living participants in the battle and those who died there.

The Golden Age of Battlefield Preservation: The Decade of the 1890s and the Establishment of America’s First Five .

The Golden Age of Battlefield Preservation: The Decade of the 1890s and the Establishment of America’s First Five Military Parks. Knoxville: The University of Tennessee Press, 2008. Knoxville: The University of Tennessee Press, 2006. Champion Hill: Decisive Battle for Vicksburg. New York: Savas Beatie, 2004. This Great Battlefield of Shiloh: History, Memory, and the Establishment of a Civil War National Military Park. Knoxville: The University of Tennessee Press, 2004.

Timothy B. Smith is on staff at the Shiloh National Military Park. He is author of Champion Hill: Decisive Battle for Vicksburg and This Great Battlefield of Shiloh: History, Memory, and the Establishment of a Civil War National Military Park. Format Paperback 232 pages. Dimensions 15. 2 x 22. 5 x 1. 5mm 32. 5g.

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Traces the history of the establishment of Shiloh National Military Park, arguing that Shiloh veterans purposefully set aside the issues of the Civil War in order to memorialize and honor soldiers from both sides of the conflict, both living and dead.

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Ice_One_Guys

Being married to a Civil War enthusiast can have a down side; my wife calls it "visiting dirt" whenever we stop at battlefields. For the enthusiast, a battlefield can be one of the best places on earth as you see more than words can convey; gain understanding of the what, why and how of the action. You can connect with the men; hear the guns while seeing their view of the battle. Talk to someone who has walked Pickett's Charge, climbed Missionary Ridge or stood looking toward The Sunken Road and you will feel their connection to that event. Each National Military Park is unique and the experience of one is not the same as another. Shiloh, in majestic isolation, is the park closest to what the veterans wanted to tell us about their service. This book is the story not of the battle but of saving the battlefield and determining how that story would be told.

In December 1894 Congress passed an act to "establish a national military park at the battlefield of Shiloh", with a budget of $75,000. This was in response to pressure from veterans who wanted their battle commemorated. From 1862 to 1894, only a military cemetery was in the area. Except for the cemetery, the battlefield had returned to farmland. Whenever a body was found, the cemetery would come out to remove the remains for burial.

This book, details how a small group of men converted several thousand acres of land, thousands of personal accounts and the Official Records into the park we have today. It is great fun to read about this effort and the writing is crisp and easy to follow. The author tells a good story, keeping our attention while generating interest. The amount of detail this small book is amazing as we work through land purchases, mapping the battlefield, placing units amid the chaos of battle while trying to find a place to live and work. It took a strong person to do this and we were blessed with a series of them, each making a unique and necessary contribution to the park.

Monumentation produced a new set of problems as regiments fought the official interpretation preferring their memories. Shiloh went through a series of "battles" with veteran's groups, state lobbies and the War Department that lasted for years. Lastly, the author gives us a glimpse of the emerging question on the Hornet's Nest complete with historical background.

While this is a small book, it is well worth the money. I have gained a real understanding of what was required to build the National Military Parks and will carry that with me each time I visit one.

Welen

Over the years I have grown weary of reading accounts of Civil War battles that never provide any information on what happened to the battlefield after the battle is over. Apprently most military authors must assume that every reader knows the field either became a park or a parking lot in later years and they ignore the subject completely, not even touching on it in an epilouge. That's why I love this book. It shows the Shiloh battlefield continuing to live as the parchment upon which the battle was written. This post-war account of the field contains almost as many quirky characters as held command in the fight. Some of the stories are amusing, some are appalling such as the former officer who continually insisted that an artificial lake be placed in the park to make it more picturesqe... he never could understand that the lake would be non-historical and cover the scene of heavy fighting. Happily, the park administrators politely resisted his requests until he finally passed away.

LadyShlak

Not your run of the mill book about Shiloh and this makes it an interesting read for any Civil War buff

Agantrius

Gettysburg, Antietam, Bull Run, Shiloh are places we won't ever forget. On these battlefields, where streams ran red with blood, the United States was truly born. Between 1861 and 1865, the clash of the greatest armies of the Western Hemisphere turned these small towns, little known streams and obscure corners of American countryside into names we will always remember.

The cost in American life was greater than that for all other American wars combined, from colonial times through the wars against terrorism. Antietam was the bloodiest, and yet more fatalities on both sides occurred at Shiloh, Tennessee, and Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. My sons and I made many trips to both places to pay respect to our soldiers who died protecting the right to be where we were and who we were. At a Confederate Decoration Day celebration, on Jefferson Davis' birthday, one of the re-enactors told me that Nathan Bedford Forrest was his hero. I took a photo of the hero in action he had on his horse carrier. He was shocked when I told him that Amazon had removed my review about the Forrest book which was all made-up with all truth absent. He said to me, "You mean we still have censorship in the United States." A local Confederate, Dr. William Johnson Worsham, was honored for his service to our country; his war memoirs, "The Old 19th Tennessee Infantry Regiment, CSA" were published in 1902. A special commemoration and dedicated monument in the Old Gray Cemetery. On the Seal of the Confederacy are these words: "Deo Vindice", God is our Vindicator. I also took pictures of the different flags displayed on June 3.

Extraordinary leaders and incompetent tyrants served on both sides. Their power to fascinate, inspire, or exasperate remains undimmed. These men -- heros and fools -- toiled in a typhoon of broader forces. Grasping this dynamic relationship among the battlefield, the home front, and the diplomatic front is absolutely essential if you want to understand the American Civil War.

Shiloh is by far one of the best battlefields to visit. Scouts all over Tennessee travel to Shiloh to camp out and study history at the place where it happened. Living history is better understood and absorbed if you are standing on the very spot where important actions took place.

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