The Civil War was gonna be won in the West, Sherman told Grant after the second bloody day at Shiloh. Okay, so that was John Wayne’s William T. Sherman telling Harry Morgan’s Ulysses S. Grant in 1962’s How the West Was Won. And while Shiloh National Military Park in Tennessee is one of the most haunting places in America, where the two-day bloodbath in April 1862 is well-preserved and the dead, both blue and gray, are honored, and, while, yeah, Shiloh was in the war’s Western theater,


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