Twenty years after his original work, Wiley Sword revisits Shiloh with this revised edition. This account of the crucial battle includes newly discovered accounts from actual participants, and what appears to be the correct site of Albert Sidney Johnston's death site, but still contains an "integration of various perspectives into a narrative explaining not only what happened, why, and how; but especially important, why Shiloh mattered at all. -- Taken, in part, from the Foreword.

Includes note regarding this edition by the author and a foreword by Stacy D. Allen, National Park Service Historian, Shiloh National Military Park.

The river has risen -- To wage an offensive -- A campsite in the wilderness -- Gathering of the host -- Storm signals in the west -- A most difficult task -- A rendezvous with destiny -- The unsuspecting Sherman -- Some queer generals -- The sun of Austerlitz -- Sherman will be shot! -- Seeing the elephant -- Roots of despair – At a heavy cost to life – Regaining the lost initiative -- A swarm of hornets -- Into the mouth of hell -- Surrender in the thickets -- Brink of disaster -- Night of horrors -- A day of reckoning -- a profitless combat -- War is horrible – Shiloh’s controversies endure -- Appendix A. The death of Albert Sidney Johnston -- Appendix B. Albert Sidney Johnston death site – Appendix C. Order of battle -- Appendix D. Numbers and losses.