Top 7 Shiloh Books: Shiloh Discussion Group

This page is dedicated to a combined listing of the Top 7 Shiloh books for members of the Shiloh Discussion Group as of August 2009.

Following the highly successful experiment of having a group of Civil War bloggers choose their Top 10 Gettysburg Books, I wanted to try this method again with a slight twist.  Rather than asking my fellow Civil War bloggers for their opinions, I went instead to the Shiloh Discussion Group.  SDG founder and admin Percy “Wrap10” Cuskey posted the event’s details, and I followed up as this event pertains to TOCWOC in the same thread.  Shiloh Discussion Group members had several weeks in July 2009 to post their own Top 7 Shiloh Books list in the specified thread.  The deadline was August 1, 2009.

The rankings below take the combined Top 7 Shiloh books lists of all SDG members posted prior to August 1, 2009.  A first place vote is worth seven points, while a seventh place vote is worth one point.  Some members listed less than seven books.  In those cases a first place vote is still worth seven points, with each successive vote being worth one less point.  In other cases voters did not have a specific order.  Each book on those lists will be worth 4 points (7+6+5+4+3+2+1=28 total points awarded per list divided by 7 books in the list = 4 points per book).

Combined Top 7 Shiloh Books

1. Shiloh and the Western Campaign of 1862

by O. Edward Cunningham

50 points (2 1^st place votes)

2. Shiloh, Bloody April

by Wiley Sword

48 points (2 1^st place votes)

3. Shiloh, The Battle That Changed the Civil War

by Larry J. Daniel

39 points (2 1^st place votes)

4. The Battle of Shiloh and the Organizations Engaged

by D.W. Reed

27 points (0 1^st place votes)

5. Shiloh:  In Hell before Night

by James Lee McDonough

20 points (0 1^st place votes)

6. This Great Battlefield of Shiloh:  History, Memory, and the Establishment of a Civil War National Military Park

by Timothy B. Smith

19 points (0 1^st place votes)

7. Shiloh: A Novel

by Shelby Foote

17 points (1 1^st place vote)

8. Shiloh National Military Park, Tennessee.  National Park Service Historical Handbook Series No. 10

by Albert Dillahunty

14 points (2 1^st place votes)

9. The Untold Story of Shiloh: The Battle and the Battlefield

by Timothy B. Smith

13 points (Y 1^st place votes)

10. (tie) War of the Rebellion, Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies,  Series I, Volume 10, Serial 10 and 11

by U.S. Government

10 points (1 1^st place vote)

10. (tie) From Fort Henry to Corinth

by Manning Force

10 points (0 1^st place votes)

12. Seeing the Elephant: Raw Recruits and the Battle of Shiloh

by Joseph Allan Frank and George A. Reaves

9 points (0 1^st place votes)

13. (tie) Battle of Shiloh (Incidents of the Civil War Series)

edited by J.F. Wakefield

7 points (1 1^st place vote)

13. (tie) Soldier Life – Many Must Fall

by B.F. Thomas and Peter Wilson

7 points (1 1^st place vote)

Note: Since a first placw vote is worth 7 points, no book past this point in the list earned a first place vote.

15. (tie) The Battle of Shiloh (1911 Reprint ed.)

by J.W. Rich

6 points

15. (tie) Shiloh 1862: The Death of Innocence

by James Arnold

6 points

15. (tie) Shiloh: Portrait of a Battle.  Orientation film, Shiloh National Military Park, 1955

directed by Ira B. Likes

6 points

15. (tie) One Year’s Soldiering

by F.F. Kiner

6 points

19. (tie) The U. S. Army War College Guide to the Battle of Shiloh

edited by Jay Luvaas, Stephen Bowman, and Leonard Fullenkamp

5 points

19. (tie) Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant

by Ulysses S. Grant

5 points

19. (tie) Nothing but Victory: The Army of the Tennessee, 1861-1865

by Steven E. Woodworth

5 points

22. (tie) Shiloh and Corinth: Sentinels of Stone

by Timothy T. Isbell

4 points

22. (tie) Eyewitnesses at the Battle of Shiloh

edited by David R. Logsdon

4 points

22. (tie) Shiloh House of Peace: The Church That Named the Battle

by Dr. Ronnie Fullwood

4 points

25. The Shiloh Campaign (Civil War Campaigns in the Heartland)

edited by Steven E. Woodworth

3 points

26. (tie) The Life of Gen. Albert Sidney Johnston: Embracing His Services in the Armies of the United States, the Republic of Texas, and the Confederate States

by William Preston Johnston

2 points

26. (tie) The Timberclads in the Civil War

by Myron J. Smith

2 points

26. (tie) Shiloh National Military Park

Note: The battlefield itself was cited as a resource.

2 points

26. (tie) Assorted Regimental Histories for Regiments Which Were at Shiloh

Note: Obviously I cannot link to all of the regimental histories for regiments which fought at Shiloh.

2 points

26. (tie) Shiloh, Shells and Artillery Units

by George Witham

2 points

31. (tie) Blue & Gray Magazine Shiloh Special Issue

by Stacy Allen

1 point

31. (tie) Shiloh: A Battlefield Guide

by Mark Grimsley and Steven Woodworth

1 point

31. (tie) Campaigns and Battles of the Twelfth Regiment Iowa Volunteer Infantry

by David W. Reed

1 point

31. (tie) Confederate Artillery at the Battle of Shiloh, April 6th and 7th, 1862 (unpublished manuscript)

by Ron Black

Note: Unpublished manuscript of an SDG member

1 point

Group members who took part in this event are listed below along with links to each Top 7 list as it appeared on TOCWOC in early August 2009.  As lists go live, SDG member names listed below will contain the link to each list.

July 30, 2009

bschulte (posted at TOCWOC – A Civil War Blog)

Tuesday, August 4, 2009

Ron 8/4/09 8 am

Bjorn 8/4/09 1 pm

drew@cwba (Drew Wagenhoffer of Civil War Books and Authors)  8/4/09 4 pm

tcb816 8/4/09 7 pm

Thursday, August 6, 2009

vtclark 8/6/09 8 am

Nick Kurtz of Battlefield Wanderings 8/6/09 1 pm

54^th OVI 8/6/09 3 pm

Manassas1 8/6/09 6 pm

Tuesday, August 11, 2009

Wrap10 (SDG founder Perry Cuskey) 8/11/09 8 am

Thursday, August 13, 2009

rrrwright 8/13/09 8 am

idaho native 8/13/09 2 pm

mona 127 words 8/13/09 5 pm

Monday, August 17, 2009

Combined list 8/17/09 8 am