Excerpt from Letter of the Hon. Thomas Ewing to His Excellency Benj. Stanton, Lieut. Governor of Ohio: In Answer to His Charges Against Our Generals Who Fought the Battle of Shiloh, on the 6th of April, 1862 Now there was no time or place when or where your scar worn friend could have been surprised, unless he fell asleep on picket guard. He could not have been attacked in his tent unless he hid there when his regiment formed line, as stated by its Col. Quinn, and advanced (a quarter of a mile) to attai k the enemy. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.