The events of Shiloh on April 6th and 7th 1862, although one battle is a tale of two vastly different days. April 6th saw an ...

Ulysses S Grant was the biggest hero of the Civil War. Johnny Clem might well ... the drummer boy won fame at the battle of Shiloh, where he put down his drum, picked up a gun, and shot a ...

There were ghosts everywhere. That’s what I kept thinking, while standing on Shiloh battlefield. Ghosts. You could feel them.

In contrast to Roland, Smith devotes much more space to Johnston’s Civil War service. Smith draws his title from Johnston’s comment at the start of the Battle Shiloh, that he must “roll the iron dice ...