France was a land, England was a people, but America, having about it still that quality of the idea, was harder to utter -- it was the graves at Shiloh and the tired, drawn, nervous faces of its great men, and the country boys dying in the Argonne for a phrase that was empty before their bodies withered. It was a willingness of the heart.
Quotes about shiloh (10 Quotes)
I did Shiloh, but before I could get around to doing the big Vicksburg novel, I was going on the non-fiction Civil War, so I never came back to them.
There are a couple of roles I haven't played that I want to. I would love to play Shiloh.
Other people have called us, but we told them we're waiting until Shiloh Road goes through,
Shiloh is a wonderfully dramatic battle. The leader of one side is killed, and the other one is going on to glory, and it was the first great battle. It lasted two days.
I'm crazy about Grant: his character, his nature, his science in fighting and everything else. But I don't like the idea that he never accepted the blame for anything, always found someone else to blame for any mistake that was ever made, including blaming Prentiss for Shiloh.
My second book, Follow Me Down had some success, got good critical notices, went into a second printing and things like that, but Shiloh was by far the most successful of those first five novels.
This was a great, great hidden battle, overshadowed by Shiloh, Franklin, Tenn., and Gettysburg, ... We're about to give Corinth its just due.
A lot of things went wrong for us tonight. We were never really able to get into the flow offensively, Shiloh probably had something to do with that and the foul problems didn't help our cause.
Shiloh is someone that really is going to play you the right way. He is going to grind on the screens. He doesn't make very many mistakes. He is a tough dude. He really gets down and grinds it out and gets the job done, night-in and night-out.