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Autore |
Smith Timothy B. <1974-> |
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Titolo |
Rethinking Shiloh [[electronic resource] ] : myth and memory / / Timothy B. Smith |
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Knoxville, : University of Tennessee Press, c2013 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (217 p.) |
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Soggetti |
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Shiloh, Battle of, Tenn., 1862 - Historiography |
Shiloh, Battle of, Tenn., 1862 |
Shiloh National Military Park (Tenn. and Miss.) History |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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"Difficult and broken ground" : the terrain factor at Shiloh -- To conquer or perish : the last hours of Albert Sidney Johnston -- Anatomy of an icon : Shiloh's hornet's nest in Civil War memory -- A case study in Civil War memory : Benjamin M. Prentiss as the hero of Shiloh -- Rewriting history : locating Lew Wallace's route of march to Shiloh -- Secession at Shiloh : Mississippi's convention delegates and their state's defense -- The forgotten inhabitants of Shiloh : a case study in a civilian-government relationship -- A case study in change : the New Deal's effect on Shiloh National Military Park -- History in the making : Shiloh : portrait of a battle fifty years later. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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 the entire rebellion."In Rethinking Shiloh, Timothy B. Smith seeks to rectify these persistentmyths and misunderstandings, arguing that some of Shiloh's story is eithernot fully examined or has been the result of a limited and narrow collectivememory established decades ago. Continuing the work he began in TheUntold Story of Shiloh, Smith delves |
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