Booknotes: The Shiloh Campaign, 1862

New Arrival:

• The Shiloh Campaign, 1862: Battle for the Heartland by Sean M. Chick (Casemate, 2025).

This is the second of the March '25 Civil War releases from the Casemate Illustrated series. It is quite evident that author Sean Chick is currently deeply immersed in Shiloh research and writing. In addition to the impending release of this volume, The Shiloh Campaign, 1862: Battle for the Heartland, the contributor bio blurb from a recently published book revealed that Chick is working on a multi-volume history of Shiloh. We'll have to keep our eyes and ears out for that project's progress! But back to the matter at hand.

The Shiloh Campaign, 1862's narrative runs a brisk 125 pages, covering events leading directly into the battle, both days of intense fighting, the retreat, and the campaign's aftermath. As with the other volumes in the series, there is a timeline and the text is heavily supplemented with informative sidebars along with modern and contemporary images of all kinds. For this particular series entry, the multi-color maps are created by Bradley Gottfried (and undoubtedly borrowed from Gottfried's work on an upcoming Shiloh Campaign atlas). They are five in number, and the four tactical maps covering the battle depict the fighting at brigade-scale. A "Further Reading" section and index round out the volume.