AP Success - AP US History: Ambrose Bierce at the Battle of Shiloh
Intense, violent fighting defined many Civil War battles.
None had escaped...all the wretched debris of the battle still littered the spongy earth as far as one could see, in every direction. Dead horses were everywhere; a few disabled caissons, or limbers, reclining on one elbow, as it were; ammunition wagons standing disconsolate behind four or six sprawling mules. Men? There were men enough; all dead apparently, except one...A bullet had clipped a groove in his skull, above the temple; from this the brain protruded in bosses, dropping off in flakes and strings...
“Ambrose Bierce Recalls his Experience at the Battle of Shiloh.” The American Yawp Reader, 1881.
Question 1
Briefly identify one perspective about warfare described in the excerpt.
Question 2
Briefly explain one military factor that influenced Union losses early in the Civil War.
Question 3
Briefly explain one economic factor that influenced the Union victory in the Civil War.
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