"Shiloh" as Seen by a Private Soldier - With Some Personal Reminiscences

Warren Olney

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WAR PAPER No. 5.

Commandery Of the State OF CALIFORNIA

M ILITARY O RDER OF THE Loyal Legion OF THE UNITED STATES.

" S H I AS S EEN   BY   A P RIVATE S OLDIER .

A PAPER READ BEFORE C ALIFORNIA C OMMANDERY OF THE MILITARY ORDER OF THE Loyal Legion of the United States, MAY 31, 1889.

BY COMPANION WARREN OLNEY, L ATE C APTAIN 65TH U. S. C. Inf. (Insignia No. 4862.)

THE BATTLE OF SHILOH. With Some Personal Reminiscences.

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Very interesting descriptions of the great battles of the late war, written by prominent generals, have been lately published and widely read. It seems to me, however, that it is time for the private soldier to be heard from. Of course, his field of vision is much more limited than that of his general. On the other hand, it is of vital importance to the latter to gloss over his mistakes, and draw attention only to those things which will add to his reputation. The private soldier has no such feeling. It is only to the officers of high rank engaged that a battle can bring glory and renown. To the army of common soldiers, who do the actual fighting, and risk mutilation and death, there is no reward except the consciousness of duty bravely performed. This was peculiarly the case in the late war, when more than a million of young men, the flower of our country, left their workshops and farms, their schools and colleges, to endure the hardships of the march and the cam , to risk health, limb and life, that their countr mi ht live, ex ectin

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