, my maternal grandmother claimed ancestry to albert sydney johnson so i brew up hearing in the morning that william sherman was a monster and albert sidney johnson was a saint and they both met at shilo, it has always been in my mind, so i had a personal relationship in some ways with these battles. but in any case when the battle was over 2 1/2 days later, the whole world took note because this was the first mass battle in some sense with rifled muskets, and there were more cash uleties missing at shilo than all of the battles in the history of the american republic up to that time put together. probably 24,000 casualties and almost 2,000 killed. this would be child's play compared to the wilderness at an eat it imor gettysburg, but at this -- antetem or gettysburg, but at this time it was shocking. on the morning -- sunday morning they got this army, nobody thought that they could do it. albert sidney johnson brought it within a few hundred yards of the union line and nobody knew it was there. and they attacked at dawned they almost broke the right side of the union army. what i would like to do at this point not talk about the tactics

albert sidney johnson is rushing over to the hornet's nest, lou wallace is raring to go. he's ready to bring the 7,000 at the critical time. grant doesn't get up to shilo until 8:30 and passes him on a boat going up river and says we'll get to you. nothing happens. lou wallace is waiting. not until 11:30 in the morning does he get the word. what does he do? he gets the word, go to the right side and reinforce where sherman is. but it's not written down. grant, not even knowing about this alternate universe that exists in the mind of lou wallace thinks that he's going to take the river route. lou wallace thinks that he means the pike, his favorite road that he worked at. so lou wallace takes off. he gets -- the order was never written down, so this is a big moment in the history of the civil war for the next 40 years because there is no written record of directive. but lou wallace takes off and he makes wonderus progress an he's within a few thousand yards of the right side. as we know now sherman is pushed back two miles and wallace is going to come around to the rear of