RiCK SAUNDERS"God was making men and every now and then He would do a job on one and say, “This one won’t do,” and He would toss it in a tub He kept there, maybe not even finished with it, And finally, 6 April 1862, the tub got full and God emptied it right out of heaven and they landed here, along this road, tumbled down in all positions, some without arms and legs, some with their heads and bodies split open where they hit the ground so hard."
- Mr. Shelby Foote, “Shilo”
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Battle of Shiloh begins
The Civil War explodes in the west as the armies of Union General Ulysses S. Grant and Confederate General Albert Sidney Johnston collide at Shiloh, near Pittsburgh Landing in Tennessee. The Battle of Shiloh became one of the bloodiest engagements of the war, and the level of violence shocked North and South alike. For six […]