{"product_id":"2940013270015","title":"THE GUNS OF SHILOH","description":"CONTENTS\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    I.    IN FLIGHT\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e   II.    THE MOUNTAIN LIGHTS\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  III.    THE TELEGRAPH STATION\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e   IV.    THE FIGHT IN THE PASS\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    V.    THE SINGER OF THE HILLS\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e   VI.    MILL SPRING\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  VII.    THE MESSENGER\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e VIII.    A MEETING AT NIGHT\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e   IX.    TAKING A FORT\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    X.    BEFORE DONELSON\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e   XI.    THE SOUTHERN ATTACK\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  XII.    GRANT'S GREAT VICTORY\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e XIII.    IN THE FOREST\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  XIV.    THE DARK EVE OF SHILOH\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e   XV.    THE RED DAWN OF SHILOH\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  XVI.    THE FIERCE FINISH OF SHILOH\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTHE GUNS OF SHILOH\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER I. IN FLIGHT\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDick Mason, caught in the press of a beaten army, fell back slowly with\u003cbr\u003ehis comrades toward a ford of Bull Run. The first great battle of the\u003cbr\u003eCivil War had been fought and lost. Lost, after it had been won! Young\u003cbr\u003eas he was Dick knew that fortune had been with the North until the very\u003cbr\u003eclosing hour. He did not yet know how it had been done. He did not know\u003cbr\u003ehow the Northern charges had broken in vain on the ranks of Stonewall\u003cbr\u003eJackson's men. He did not know how the fresh Southern troops from the\u003cbr\u003eValley of Virginia had hurled themselves so fiercely on the Union flank.\u003cbr\u003eBut he did know that his army had been defeated and was retreating on\u003cbr\u003ethe capital.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCannon still thundered to right and left, and now and then showers of\u003cbr\u003ebursting shell sprayed over the heads of the tired and gloomy soldiers.\u003cbr\u003eDick, thoughtful and scholarly, was in the depths of a bitterness and\u003cbr\u003edespair reached by few of those around him. The Union, the Republic, had\u003cbr\u003eappealed to him as the most glorious of experiments. He could not bear\u003cbr\u003eto see it broken up for any cause whatever. It had been founded with\u003cbr\u003etoo much blood and suffering and labor to be dissolved in a day on a\u003cbr\u003eVirginia battlefield.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBut the army that had almost grasped victory was retreating, and the\u003cbr\u003ecamp followers, the spectators who had come out to see an easy triumph,\u003cbr\u003eand some of the raw recruits were running. A youth near Dick cried that\u003cbr\u003ethe rebels fifty thousand strong with a hundred guns were hot upon their\u003cbr\u003eheels. A short, powerful man, with a voice like the roar of thunder,\u003cbr\u003ebade him hush or he would feel a rifle barrel across his back. Dick\u003cbr\u003ehad noticed this man, a sergeant named Whitley, who had shown singular\u003cbr\u003ecourage and coolness throughout the battle, and he crowded closer to him\u003cbr\u003efor companionship. The man observed the action and looked at him with\u003cbr\u003eblue eyes that twinkled out of a face almost black with the sun.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Don't take it so hard, my boy,\" he said. \"This battle's lost, but there\u003cbr\u003eare others that won't be. Most of the men were raw, but they did some\u003cbr\u003emighty good fightin', while the regulars an' the cavalry are coverin'\u003cbr\u003ethe retreat. Beauregard's army is not goin' to sweep us off the face of\u003cbr\u003ethe earth.\"","brand":"SAP","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47176840085744,"sku":"2940013270015","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940013270015_p0.jpg?v=1763579033","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940013270015","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}