Remembered as the Drummer Boy of Shiloh, Johnny Klem was a 9-year-old when the Civil War began on April 15, 1861. There is a story that started soon after the end of the Civil War that Johnny was at ...

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Groom enhances his solid reputation as a writer of general audience military history with this narrative of the Civil War’s first major battle in the west. Shiloh was fought by armies unprepared in ...

The words of men involved in the terrors of war can provide a dramatic view of the incredible emotional roller coaster ride of those on the front. A few months ago, the Sandusky County Historical ...

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April 6-7, 2022, marks the 160th anniversary of the Battle of Shiloh, a furious struggle fought in southwestern Tennessee. Author Larry J. Daniel called it “the battle that changed the Civil War.” The ...

There's a Civil War legend that dates back to April of 1862, in the aftermath of the Battle of Shiloh. Supposedly, when night fell on thousands of wounded soldiers stranded on the battlefield, ...