Scapegoat of Shiloh
Subtitle: The Distortion of Lew Wallace's Record by U. S. Grant
Publisher: McFarland & Company
Published: Jul 18, 2013
Language: eng
Format: paperback
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9780786472093
Description: " A great controversy surrounds General Lew Wallace at the Battle of Shiloh. General U.S. Grant blamed Wallace for the huge numbers of casualties the Union suffered. Wallace was obsessed with these accusations his entire life and wrote Ben Hur as much to work through the injustice of being a scapegoat as for literary aspirations. "--
Notes: Source title: Scapegoat of Shiloh: The Distortion of Lew Wallace's Record by U. S. Grant