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Title: Seeing the Elephant: Raw Recruits at the Battle of Shiloh by Joseph Allan Frank, George A. Reaves ISBN: 0-252-07126-3 Publisher: Univ of Illinois Pr (Trd) Pub. Date: March, 2003 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $17.95

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Average Customer Rating: 3.5 (2 reviews)

Rating: 4
Summary: Very good historical scholarship
Comment: Seeing the Elephant takes the historiographical tactics of McPherson or Power -- close study of participants' own writings -- and applies them to a specific group at a specific moment: green recruits at the Battle of Shiloh. While the conclusions the co-authors come up with are more or less what one would expect, the book is still highly interesting and gives a good picture of the mentality of the average Civil War soldier before, during and after the battle. One thing I'd point out is that this is *not* a tactical study of Shiloh -- you'll have to go to another book for that. I would recommend this not only to students of the specific battle/campaign but to anyone interested in the battle experience and soldier mentalities of the period.

Rating: 3
Summary: Informative, but not very entertaining
Comment: I needed to write a report on Shiloh, and this book gave me some information which I greatly needed. It gave me the points of view and opinions of some of the new recruits used to fight at the Battle of Shiloh.

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