Knew the baffled will, the down-crushed pride;
From his effort plucked up courage,
Turned the failure into story,
From it won renown and glory.
Amy E. Blanchard.
HISTORIC HIGHWAYS OF THE SOUTH
CHAPTER XVIII—THE BLUNDERS OF SHILOH
By John Trotwood Moore
The more one studies Shiloh, the more contradictory it becomes. It will ever remain an incongruous battle. On the Union side it was a battle of unpreparedness—though not of dishonorable surprise—and on both sides a battle of blunders. And never in any battle of any war that I have ever read did Chance—old-fashioned, historic, blind Chance—play a more conspicuous part.