read to you something that was written by a man that we don't associate with poetry, namely her man mel vil. in 1866, herman melville published a book which is entitled "battle pieces and aspects of the war, civil war poems." this particular poem deals with shiloh. it is a marvelous piece that expresses so much about that battle and what happened to the men that were there. it is a brief poem. shiloh a rec quee yum, april, 1862. skimming lightly, wheeling still, the swallows sfli low over the field and clouded days, the forest field of shiloh. over the field where april rains solaced the parched ones stretched in pain. through the pause of night that followed the sunday fight, around the church of shiloh the church so loan, the log-built one, that echoed to many a parting grown and natural prayer of dying foemen mingled there. foemen at morn but friends at eve. fame or country least their care. what like a bullet can undeceive but now they lie low while over them the swallows skim and all is hushed at shiloh. i think that does express what went on for the soldiers. understand, shiloh was so