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Thread #76808   Message #1364570
Posted By: Lighter
23-Dec-04 - 09:04 PM
Thread Name: Folklore: The Battle of Shiloh
Subject: RE: Folklore: The Battle of Shiloh
Though written at some point after the battle, one of the greatest of all genuine Civil War songs is "The Battle of Shiloh's Hill." One text (with a midi) is at

       http://gordonfamilygenealogy.homestead.com/Shiloh.html

Another, rather different (also with a midi)is in the DT.

If you're of a literary turn, Herman melville, author of "Moby Dick," wrote a well-known poem called "Shiloh." It contains the memorable question, "What like a bullet can undeceive?"

http://eir.library.utoronto.ca/rpo/display/poem2854.html