NF Shiloh, the Devil's Own Day

[nitrofd]

This is not a book review or a movie review.this was a program I taped last night on Georgia PBS Television last night.it was made in 2012 by Nashville Public Television and The Tennessee Heritage Trail to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the Battle of Shiloh.it was only a half hour program but they depicted the battle as it really happened.They did add a little human interest as they read some letters from Gen.W.H.L.Wallace to his wife Anne and her replies before she found out that he was killed during the battle.they also had a renactor reciting some of Sam Watkins from his memoir "Company Aytch",but what made that real interesting they had his Great-Granddaughter adding some family lore.as for honesty two of the commentators were Stacey Allen,the historian for the park and Timothy B.Smith noted author and Professor of history at the University of Tennessee,Martin.I think you can find this program on the Internet and it is well worth watching as it tells the real story not like the other poor attempts to represent civil war history that has been on TV lately.

 

[JohnW.]

The Battle of Pittsburg Landing is a great story. I like that the 62 cannons that Ruggles assembled to "silence" the Union threat in the Hornet's Nest was the loudest sound heard on the North American continent until the cannonade at Gettysburg on July 3rd....and after that, the detonation of the first atomic bomb in 1945 at Trinity in New Mexico.

 

[nitrofd]

I hope this link works as it is to the video of this program.

https://www.aptonline.org/catalog.nsf/vLinkTitle/SHILOH+THE+DEVIL+S+OWN+DAY

Edit:this link will only tell you when it is on in your area.

 

[nitrofd]

I found the right link to watch the video.here it is:

www.pbs.org/2331460683/

 

[James N.]

This is not a book review or a movie review.this was a program I taped last night on Georgia PBS Television last night.it was made in 2012 by Nashville Public Television and The Tennessee Heritage Trail to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the Battle of Shiloh.it was only a half hour program but they depicted the battle as it really happened.They did add a little human interest as they read some letters from Gen.W.H.L.Wallace to his wife Anne and her replies before she found out that he was killed during the battle.they also had a renactor reciting some of Sam Watkins from his memoir "Company Aytch",but what made that real interesting they had his Great-Granddaughter adding some family lore.as for honesty two of the commentators were Stacey Allen,the historian for the park and Timothy B.Smith noted author and Professor of history at the University of Tennessee,Martin.I think you can find this program on the Internet and it is well worth watching as it tells the real story not like the other poor attempts to represent civil war history that has been on TV lately.

If the show says this was so, it's an error. Wallace was mortally wounded on April 6 but discovered on the field after the Confederate retreat and taken by steamer back to Grant's headquarters in the Cherry Mansion at Savannah where his wife found him and nursed him shortly before he died.

 

[nitrofd]

If the show says this was so, it's an error. Wallace was mortally wounded on April 6 but discovered on the field after the Confederate retreat and taken by steamer back to Grant's headquarters in the Cherry Mansion at Savannah where his wife found him and nursed him shortly before he died.

The letters that they wrote were before the battle.