Excerpt from Shiloh, or the Tennessee Campaign of 1862: Written Especially for the Army of the Tennessee in 1862 and for the Friends and Relatives of Those Patriot Soldiers, Who Sank Into Their Graves on Shiloh"s Field
The writer of the following compendium, fully intending to have it published about the 1st of April, 1862, was not assured till the last week in March of overt acts, by direction of a cabal in Washington, to protract the operations of an invading army, though at the imminent risk, and indeed certainty, of defeat and slaughter of myriads of the Union troops. This occasioned his having to reject over half lie had written, and rewrite nearly the whole work.
In the first week of April, after long search, he got together Halleck"s dispatches of March 3d and 4th, plainly pointing to the instruments chosen for this purpose of interested desolation. This required further changes in the chapters, and may account for many points obscure and inconsistent, which may be corrected hereafter, if this commentary is found worthy of notice.
He has been refused all information at the War Department, as the policy of protracting the war required the suppression or destruction of all special army records, and the abrogation of all established principles of military law.
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