ShilohBy: Shelby Foote This fictional re creation of the battle of Shiloh in April 1862 is a stunning work of imaginative history, from Shelby Foote, beloved historian of the Civil War. Shiloh conveys not only the bloody choreography of Union and Confederate troops through the woods near Pittsburg Landing, Tennessee, but the inner movements of the combatants hearts and minds. Through the eyes of officers and illiterate foot soldiers, heroes and cowards,