Shiloh
['ʃailəu]
Definition
(noun.) the second great battle of the American Civil War (1862); the battle ended with the withdrawal of Confederate troops but it was not a Union victory.
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Definition
(n.) A word used by Jacob on his deathbed, and interpreted variously, as "the Messiah," or as the city "Shiloh," or as "Rest."
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Examples
- Orders were given to all the commanders engaged at Shiloh to send in their reports without delay to department headquarters. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Shiloh was the severest battle fought at the West during the war, and but few in the East equalled it for hard, determined fighting. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- A casualty to Sherman that would have taken him from the field that day would have been a sad one for the troops engaged at Shiloh. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- To Sherman I told the story of the assault at Fort Donelson, and said that the same tactics would win at Shiloh. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- This seemed to settle the question as to whether there was to be any battle of Shiloh. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- At Shiloh the effective strength of the Union forces on the morning of the 6th was 33,000 men. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- The criticism has often been made that the Union troops should have been intrenched at Shiloh. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- I continued to entertain these views until after the battle of Shiloh. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- There was no time from the battle of Shiloh up to the evacuation of Corinth when the enemy would not have left if pushed. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Wallace, widow of the gallant general who was killed in the first day's fight on the field of Shiloh, a letter from General Lew. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- And there ran a man of Benjamin out of the army, and came to Shiloh the same day with his clothes rent, and with earth upon his head. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- On the 30th of April the grand army commenced its advance from Shiloh upon Corinth. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Johnston had made efforts to reinforce in the same quarter, before the battle of Shiloh, but in a different way. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Some two or three miles from Pittsburg landing was a log meeting-house called Shiloh. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Colonel Mason was one of the officers who had led their regiments off the field at almost the first fire of the rebels at Shiloh. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
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