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Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War: The Opening Battles. Volume 1., Shiloh reviewed. (search)
command, and its prospects unaided for the morrow. The evidence relied upon to refute the accepted belief in the critical condition of General Grant's command on Sunday evening is of two sorts: first, The official, or Thom, map of the battle of Shiloh. On Nov. 28th, 1884, two weeks before the Official Map was sent to press with General Grant's Shiloh article (in The Century magazine for February, 1885), inquiry was made of General George Thor concerning its history. He replied, Dec. 5th, that it was prepared under his direction as Chief of Topographical Engineers on Halleck's staff soon after the battle, while the Union troops were still encamped on and near the battleground, and that Generals Grant, Buell, and Sherman furnished him with information as to the positions occupied by the troops in the battle. On Dec. 15th, General Thom called the attention of General Grant to certain criticisms which General Sherman published on the Official Map . . . of that battle-field, a