Talk:Battle of Shiloh/Archive 2

Archive 1

Archive 2

Inaccuracy

I removed the sentences about "Tennessee Two-Step" and "The Evacuation of Corinth" because they were inaccurate (as those names referred to the disease dysentery, not the camps) and they appear to be lifted from "The Civil War" by Geoffery Ward.

Cancel that, I'm not sure what I was thinking. 12.220.47.145 21:42, 23 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Grants orders to Wallace

It needs to be noted that the confusion on part of orders to advance via Grant was delivered by an aide who had written them down as Grant spoke, this could have easily added to the confusion by mentioning Where Wallace was to deploy and engage the Confederates.

Simply put the aide didn't have a copy of Grant's orders merely his own written one.

Enfield rifle link added

I added a link to the article on the Enfield rifle cited in the following sentence: "On the eve of battle, Grant's and Johnston's armies were of comparable size, but the Confederates were poorly armed with antique weapons, including shotguns, hunting rifles, pistols, flintlock muskets, and even a few pikes. However, some regiments, notably the 6th and 7th Kentucky Infantry, had Enfield rifles.[13]" Carmaskid (talk) 08:43, 6 December 2011 (UTC)

Thank you. FYI, it is unnecessary to use the talk page to announce changes of a noncontroversial nature. Hal Jespersen (talk) 19:33, 6 December 2011 (UTC)

Re: Lew Wallace' Lost Division

The section concludes: "Grant was not pleased, and his endorsement of Wallace's battle report was negative enough to damage Wallace's military career severely.[29]". I imagine the fact that he was killed at the battle was more damaging to his military career. Perhaps "career" should be replaced with "reputation". — Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.107.41.221 (talk) 16:24, 17 August 2014 (UTC)

No, you are confusing your Wallaces. There were actually two Union generals named Wallace at Shiloh: Lew Wallace and W. H. L. Wallace. If Lew Wallace had been killed at Shiloh, how then could he have written Ben Hur in the late 1870s? It was W. H. L. Wallace, not Lew Wallace who was mortally wounded there and died on April 10, 1862. -- fdewaele, 17 August 2014, 18:37 CET.

Ah. Thanks for the correction and please accept my apologies. Glad I stopped before I actually edited the article. The "error" I saw sure gave me a chuckle, though. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.107.41.221 (talk) 20:09, 17 August 2014 (UTC)