Description
SHILOH is a narrative play on important events in the battle of Shiloh, the first great battle of the U.S Civil War. The play shows a stunning failure of military leadership, which led to extraordinary gore and carnage and cowardice. The play is presented largely from the soldier's point of view, and the dialogue is based mostly on original eyewitness documents--soldiers' letters, diaries, and notebooks, and rarely on their commanders' memoirs, which tend to be embellished, glorified or otherwise distorted, to justify the commanders' decisions.
