Shadow of Shiloh: Major General Lew Wallace in the Civil War

by Gail Stephens

Overview

Thirty-two years after the battle of Shiloh, Lew Wallace returned to the battlefield, mapping the route of his April 1862 march. Ulysses S. Grant, Wallace's commander at Shiloh, expected Wallace and his Third Division to arrive early in the afternoon of April 6. Wallace and his men, however, did not arrive until nightfall, and in the aftermath of the bloodbath of Shiloh Grant attributed Wallace's late arrival to a failure to obey orders. By mapping the route of his march and proving how and where he had actually been that day, the sixty-seven-year-old Wallace hoped to remove the stigma of "Shiloh and its slanders." That did not happen. Shiloh still defines Wallace's military reputation, overshadowing the rest of his stellar military career and making it easy to forget that in April 1862 he was a rising military star, the youngest major general in the Union army. Wallace was devoted to the Union, but he was also pursuing glory, fame, and honor when he volunteered to serve in April 1861. In Shadow of Shiloh: Major General Lew Wallace in the Civil War, author Gail Stephens specifically addresses Wallace's military career and its place in the larger context of Civil War military history.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780871953322
Publisher:	Indiana Historical Society Press
Publication date:	07/23/2013
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	6 MB

About the Author

Gail Stephens is a retired U.S. Department of Defense employee who serves as a volunteer at the Monocacy National Battlefield. She lectures on the Civil War, teaches courses at area colleges, and gives battlefield tours.

Table of Contents

Contents Foreword Introduction 1. The Hoosier Boy Becomes a Soldier 2. First Service: Spring and Summer 1861 3. Winter of Discontent: Paducah, 1861-62 4. Doing His Duty with Honor: The Campaign against Forts Henry and Donelson, February 1862 5. Waiting: Lew Wallace at Crump's Landing, March-April 1862 6. The Fog of War: April 6, 1862 7. Death and Destruction: April 7, 1862 8. Aftermath 9. Slow March to the "Great, Intolerant Rebel City" : April - June 1862 10. "My Very Great Mistake" : Summer 1862 11. Opportunities: August - September 1862 12. Managing "Hell" : Camp Chase, September 1862 and Beyond 13. President of the Buell Commission: November 1862 - May 1863 14. "Nothing Doing" : Spring 1863 - March 1864 15. Assignment: The Middle Department, 1864 16. "His Will Is the Law" : Middle Department Commander, March 1864 - July 1865 17. Monocacy: Horatius at the Bridge 18. The Battle: July 9, 1864 19. Consequences 20. Texas and the Mexican Connection, 1865 21. Two Trials: April - November 1865 22. Success - and Shiloh Notes Bibliography Index