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"Most writers of military history stress strategy and tactics at the expense of the character of their subjects. Larry Tagg remedies that oversight with The Generals of Shiloh, a unique and invaluable study of the high-ranking combat officers whose conduct in April 1862 helped determine the success or failure of their respective armies, the fate of the war in the Western Theater and, in turn, the fate of the American union. AUTHOR: Born in Lincoln, Illinois, Larry Tagg graduated from the University of Texas at Austin. A bass player and singer of world renown, Larry co-founded and enjoyed commercial success with the group ""Bourgeois Tagg"" in the mid-1980s. He went on to play bass for Todd Rundgren, Hall and Oates, and other acts. He currently teaches high school English and drama in Sacramento, California. Larry is the author of the bestselling book The Generals of Gettysburg, a selection of the Military Book Club. 58 images, 6 maps"

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The format of The Generals of Shiloh is well suited to its purposes of emphasizing leaders, command relationships, and organization... The book also does a good job of shining a bright light upon the great preponderance of highly placed citizen-generals in the Shiloh armies. One might draw from Tagg's descriptions of the Army of the Tennessee's non-professional leadership corps that that army, through all its success from Shiloh onward, represented perhaps the highest pinnacle of the American citizen-soldier ideal and tradition. --Civil War Books and Authors

"""The format of The Generals of Shiloh is well suited to its purposes of emphasizing leaders, command relationships, and organization... The book also does a good job of shining a bright light upon the great preponderance of highly placed citizen-generals in the Shiloh armies. One might draw from Tagg's descriptions of the Army of the Tennessee's non-professional leadership corps that that army, through all its success from Shiloh onward, represented perhaps the highest pinnacle of the American citizen-soldier ideal and tradition.""-- ""Civil War Books and Authors"""

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Born in Lincoln, Illinois, Larry Tagg graduated from the University of Texas at Austin. A bass player and singer of world renown, Larry co-founded and enjoyed commercial success with the group “Bourgeois Tagg” in the mid-1980s. He went on to play bass for Todd Rundgren, Hall and Oates, and other acts. He currently teaches high school English and drama in Sacramento, California. Larry is the author of the bestselling book The Generals of Gettysburg, a selection of the Military Book Club.

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