Dawn's Gray Steel: A Novel About Shiloh: April Fifth Through Eighth 1862 - Tapa blanda

There has been many novels written about the Civil War in the East. Now Dan Korn brings to life the incredible story of the western theater's first major battle, the titantic struggle between two massive ill-prepared armies as they met on the shore of the mighty Tennessee River at a lazy riverboat landing called Pittsburg Landing. Nestled in a glen not far from the water's edge was a sleepy house of worship, named Shiloh Meetinghouse. Shiloh means "place of peace." After the events of early April, 1862, Americans would never think of peace when they heard the name Shiloh ever again. As Dawn's Gray Steel opens, the South is reeling over the recent twin losses of the Tennessee forts Henry and Donelson, and the taking of the Tennessee capital, Nashville, by the thus far victorious western armies of the North.These victories have given the North a new hero in the form of a quiet and unassuming leader, Ulysses S. Grant. To the North, Grant has become "Unconditional Surrender " Grant. To end the string of Yankee victories, the Confederacy turns to the quixotic and charismatic Albert Sidney Johnston, a man some consider to be the greatest soldier in the Confederacy, and the man Jefferson Davis entrusts to save the Confederacy in the West. It will become Johnston's mission to end Grant's run. Victory has brought Grant fame, and with that fame comes a certain relaxed feeling in Grant that allows him to place his still relatively inexperienced Army of the Tennessee into camp along the Tennessee without taking many defensive precautions. It is this relaxed atmosphere that causes deep anxiety in one of Grant's newest division commanders, the cigar-chomping, wild-eyed William Tecumseh Sherman. Grant assures his new subordinate that Johnston would be crazy to attack the Union Army where they are. It is a mistake that Johnston is determined to make Grant regret. Johnston refuses to heed the advice of his own subordinates and decides to launch an all out attack against th

Daniel F. Korn was born in 1952 in Rochester, New York. As a young boy he was fascinated by the heroes and stories of our nation's history, with his first hero being Davy Crockett. Dan would grow up in western New York and would follow his love of history by attending the State University of New York at Brockport, (Brockport State), from whom he holds both a bachelor's and a master's degree in History and Education. As a college student he read and fell in love with Michael Shaara's immortal Civil War novel The Killer Angels. The book inspired Dan to write his own novel, a story about those incredibly horrible days of battle that took place in April, 1862, on the shores of the Tennessee River, near a sleepy little church called Shiloh Meetinghouse. Dan, his wife Cheri, and their family currently reside in Monroe, North Carolina where Dan teachs high school students in Honors U.S. History and Civil War, and shares a love for Revolutionary War reenacting with his son, Mike. Dawn's Gray Steel is his first book.