The Story of Shiloh
Joseph Trautwein Chicago: The Civil War Round Table, 1946. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Wraps. 89, [9] pages. Illustrations. Map. Notes. Bibliography. Inscribed and dated by the author on fep to Colonel Clifford L. Sayre 'fellow chemist and fellow historian'. Small spine tear. Otto Eisenschiml (June 16, 1880 – December 7, 1963) was an Austrian-born chemist and executive in the oil industry, and author. He may be best known for his provocative 1937 book on the assassination of Abraham Lincoln in which he proposed that a member of Lincoln's Cabinet orchestrated the plot to kill the president. Eisenschiml was well published within the chemical and oil industries, authoring several articles in trade journals and magazines on technical aspects of the business. He became a student of American history, with a particular fascination for the Abraham Lincoln assassination. He began researching the murder in 1928, but was not satisfied with the prevailing account that John Wilkes Booth was the mastermind of the plot. In 1937, his signature work, Why was Lincoln Murdered?, was published. The Battle of Shiloh (also known as the Battle of Pittsburg Landing) was a battle in the Western Theater of the American Civil War, fought April 6–7, 1862, in southwestern Tennessee. The Army of the Tennessee (Major General Ulysses S. Grant) had moved via the Tennessee River deep into Tennessee and was encamped principally at Pittsburg Landing on the west bank of the Tennessee River, where the Confederate Army of Mississippi (General Albert Sidney Johnston) launched a surprise attack on Grant's army from its base in Corinth, Mississippi. Johnston was mortally wounded during the fighting; Beauregard took command of the army and decided against pressing the attack late in the evening. Overnight, Grant was reinforced by one of his divisions stationed further north and was joined by three divisions from the Army of the Ohio (Maj. Gen. Don Carlos Buell). The Union forces began an unexpected counterattack the next morning which reversed the Confederate gains of the previous day. Condition: Very good.
Keywords: Ulysses Grant, Pittsburg Landing, Civil War, Shiloh, Albert Sidney Johnston, Pierre Beauregard, Don Carlos Buell, De Long Rice, Augusta Evans Inge, Benjamin Prentiss, Eugenia Polk Hyneman, William Murphy Inge, Clifford Sayre
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