Excerpt from Opening of the Battle of Shiloh Fifty years ago next Saturday, the great battle of Shiloh opened, on a beautiful, balmy, April, Sunday morning. It was the first great battle of the Civil War. It was at the time the greatest battle in our history - the greatest on the western hemisphere - and to-day it remains one of the great battles of our great war and of modern times and one of the greatest in importance, for who can divine the far - reaching results to this nation and the world had our army there and then met defeat, 'or -had its victory been promptly and vigorously fol lowed up! About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.