Shiloh, or the Tennessee Campaign of 1862: Written especially for the Army of the Tennessee in 1862 and for the friends and relatives of those patriot soldiers, who sank into their graves on Shiloh's field, "Unknelled, Unnoticed, and Unknown"
Author: WORTHINGTON, T[homas] ["West Point Graduate"]
Title: Shiloh, or the Tennessee Campaign of 1862: Written especially for the Army of the Tennessee in 1862 and for the friends and relatives of those patriot soldiers, who sank into their graves on Shiloh's field, "Unknelled, Unnoticed, and Unknown"
Publication: Washington DC: M'Gill & Witherow, 1872
Edition: First Edition
Description: Softcover. Octavo, 164pp., illustrated. [Cover title: Shiloh: The Only Correct Military History of U. S. Grant and of the Missing Army Records, for Which He is Alone Responsible, to Conceal his Organized Defeat of the Union Army at Shiloh, April 6, 1862.] Mildly ex-library, with a few pencil markings to the wraps and a marginal perforation stamp to title page, with de-accession marking to same. Else clean and sound, and in the original printed purple wrappers; very good. A copy with appealing provenance, bearing the ownership signature of Civil War general and later Ohio Governor and US Secretary of the Interior Jacob D. Cox ["J. D. Cox"] on the front wrap (along with a few small ink notations to one map, possibly in his hand). An impassioned and conspiratorial document written by the field commander of the Ohio Volunteer Infantry, which, in short, alleges that Grant and Sherman deliberately lost at Shiloh, through a mixture of incompetence and ulterior motives. Worthington criticized them at the time, and Sherman had Worthington arrested, a move for which Worthington never forgave the general. The pamphelt is scarce in the trade. Cox, whose ownership signature appears here, was himself a general during the war, and was never a "Copperhead," though his attitude toward Reconstruction was in line with Andrew Johnson's. It is perhaps not surprising that Cox might have had a pamphlet like this in his possession, as he had only lasted about 18 months as Grant's Interior Secretary, due to a number of quarrels between the two. Howes W685. [Note that the volume is not signed by Worthington.]. Very good.
Seller ID: 11768
Subject: Civil War
