The Devil's Own Day: Shiloh and the American Civil War
Second Edition
JDB Communications LLC is proud to announce the Second Edition of The Devil’s Own Day: Shiloh and the American Civil War is now available.
In the spring of 1862, three green armies clashed in the Tennessee pine barrens near an obscure flatboat landing on the Tennessee River.
Desperate to stop two Union armies from joining forces—and by so doing, to prove his worth to the Confederacy, Albert S. Johnston, with Pierre G. T. Beauregard, led the 40,000 man Army of Mississippi north from Corinth, Mississippi. It didn't help that Johnston and Beauregard didn't trust each other, nor that their army, collected from all over the South, had never marched—let alone fought—together...
Planning an advance on Corinth, Ulysses S. Grant and the Army of West Tennessee waited near the trading hamlet of Pittsburg Landing on the west side of the Tennessee River, near a small church called Shiloh—the place of peace—anticipating Don C. Buell and the Army of the Ohio. It didn't help that Buell hated Grant, though they barely knew each other...
On 6 April 1862, the Confederates, most of whom hadn’t eaten in days, stumbled into the Federal camps in the dark of night. An hour after sunrise, a fifth of Grant's army had become casualties, but Grant himself wasn't there...
By sunset, these two untrained, unblooded armies cast the die for a different future for America…
This encounter—two days of brutal fighting that produced over twenty-thousand casualties—was the first major battle of a war that was projected to last only six months. Instead, it dragged on for three more years, and radically changed the American way of war.
The Devil's Own Day: Shiloh and The American Civil War is a careful examination of this pivotal battle, from the co-author of Why The Samurai Lost Japan: A Study in Miscalculation and Folly, and the creator of The Stella's Game Trilogy. Now available in trade paperback and e-book from your favorite booksellers.
For those of you brave souls who suffered through the First Edition, we cleaned this edition up from what my first publisher was supposed to have done.