Summary: Winston Groom, both a non-fiction writer and the author of the novel Forrest Gump, goes into details about the Civil War Battle of Shiloh, a battle unlike any that America had ever seen. A pre-cursor to Antietam, with 24,000 casualties, the North and South were both horrified, especially the North, who came very close to losing the battle. Groom discusses how cotton transformed the southern economy and made slavery indispensable economically, the hatred that grew between the north and the south, the southern belief that the yankees were an entirely different species from southerners, the rise of Ulysses’s Grant’s and how Sherman, Grant and McPherson left their army completely exposed to the confederate army and more in this episode of the Massachusetts School of Law’s program Books of Our Time. To listen to the podcast click the play button below, or subscribe to all of MSLawMedia’s podcasts on iTunes. Also available as a video interview.
