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Shadow of Shiloh: Major General Lew Wallace in the Civil War by Gail Stephens, Indiana Historical Society Press, 2010, $27.95 IF ULYSSES S. GRANT HAD had been able to read Shadow of Shiloh, it wouldn’t have taken him 23 years to exonerate Lew Wallace for his alleged tardiness in coming to the Union commander’s support …
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