"The Shiloh Campaign" kickstarts the Civil War Campaigns in the Heartland series

The essay compilation The Shiloh Campaign edited by Steven Woodworth (April 2009) will be the first volume of SIU Press's Civil War Campaigns in the Heartland series. The planned series "showcases the decisive battles in the western theater, that immense and varied landscape between the Appalachian Mountains and the Mississippi River", and Chickamauga expert Dave Powell has commented that a volume covering that battle is progressing well.

From The Shiloh Campaign book description:

"John R. Lundberg examines the role of Albert Sidney Johnston, the prized Confederate commander who recovered impressively after a less-than-stellar performance at forts Henry and Donelson only to die at Shiloh; Alexander Mendoza analyzes the crucial, and perhaps decisive, struggle to defend the Union’s left; Timothy B. Smith investigates the persistent legend that the Hornet’s Nest was the spot of the hottest fighting at Shiloh; Steven E. Woodworth follows Lew Wallace’s controversial march to the battlefield and shows why Ulysses S. Grant never forgave him; Gary D. Joiner provides the deepest analysis available of action by the Union gunboats; Grady McWhiney describes P. G. T. Beauregard’s decision to stop the first day’s attack and takes issue with his claim of victory; and Charles D. Grear shows the battle’s impact on Confederate soldiers, many of whom did not consider the battle a defeat for their side. In the final chapter, Brooks D. Simpson analyzes how command relationships—specifically the interactions among Grant, Henry Halleck, William T. Sherman, and Abraham Lincoln—affected the campaign and debunks commonly held beliefs about Grant’s reactions to Shiloh’s aftermath."

That's a nice group of authors (although Stacy Allen is notably absent). Essay selection is reminiscent of Gary Gallagher's Military Campaigns of the Civil War series published by UNC Press. Lamentably, that celebrated collection never made it out west, but Woodworth [I'm assuming he's the general editor] appears to have picked up the torch. At $25 or less, the price level is more than reasonable, too.