The Battle of Shiloh Webcast

A battle that introduced carnage to the Civil War

Presented by the Weider History Group and American Military University

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Editor's note: this is the second of three webcasts on the Civil War.

The fact that the first major battle of the Western Theater did not take place until spring 1862 indicates the difficulty both sides had in mobilizing their armies in the much larger and more rugged West. But could a decisive victory at Shiloh have changed the outcome of the war?

The Battle of Shiloh was the Confederacy's first great effort to roll back the tide of Union success in the decisive Western Theater of the Civil War. It was also the Confederacy's best chance for victory. For the Union, Shiloh was the first major test for Maj. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant and the leaders serving under him, namely Don Carlos Buell and Brig. Gen. William T. Sherman. How were these men viewed after their victory at Shiloh? Conversely, how did the Confederacy deal with Gen. Albert Sidney Johnston's death? Could any Confederate general have prevented Union invasion on the Cumberland or Tennessee Rivers?

Watch American Military University and the Weider History Group's recorded webcast event that highlighted the importance of the Battle of Shiloh and the effect it had on the outcome of the Civil War. Our speakers discussed what would have happened in case of a decisive Confederate victory at Shiloh. Such an event would have removed Grant and Sherman, the Union's two ablest commanders, and would have opened the way to probable further Confederate victories that might have changed the outcome of the war.

The webcast also included a question and answer session.

This event is part of a series of three Civil War webcasts sponsored by AMU and the Weider History Group. Other events include:

• The Civil War Common Soldier 
• The Battle of Gettysburg

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Speaker Profiles 

Dr. Steven E. Woodworth
AMU Professor
School of Arts and Humanities

Dr. Woodworth (Ph.D., Rice University, 1987) is professor of history at American Military University and author, co-author, or editor of twenty-seven books. Some of the courses he teaches include: Historical Research Methods, The Civil War: Seminal Event in American History, and Civil War Command & Leadership.

Steven is a two-time winner of the Fletcher Pratt Award of the New York Civil War Round Table (for Jefferson Davis and His Generals and Davis and Lee at War). He is also two-time finalist for the Peter Seaborg Award of the George Tyler Moore Center for the Study of the Civil War (for While God Is Marching On and Nothing but Victory), and a winner of the Grady McWhiney Award of the Dallas Civil War Round Table for lifetime contribution to the study of Civil War history.

Dana B. Shoaf
Editor, Civil War Times

Dana B. Shoaf is the editor of Civil War Times, the oldest Civil War magazine in publication. Shoaf taught American history at colleges in Maryland and Northern Virginia before working for Time-Life as a writer and researcher. He has published dozens of articles dealing with the Civil War and often speaks at conferences. A committed preservationist, Shoaf is a former board member of the Save Historic Antietam Foundation.