Shiloh--In Hell before Night Dementia When tragedy strikes both of

When tragedy strikes both of them

As he was charged

With our landscape littered with multimillion-dollar steeples piercing into God's blue atmosphere and stained windows shimmering with His sunshine

I sat down one day and said to myself

his century

Shiloh--In Hell before Night Dementia When tragedy strikes both ofColorful, dramatic, blundering, and tragic these are some of the adjectives that have been applied to the two day engagement at Shiloh. This battle, which bears the biblical name meaning place of peace, was one of the bloodiest encounters of the Civil War. The Union colonel, whose words give the present book its title, foretold the losses when he told his men: Fill your canteens Boys! Some of you will be in hell before night. Fought in the early