Abstract
The influence of weather conditions on combat operations has not received the attention it deserves from military historians. No better example can be provided, however, of the sometimes determinant effect of weather on the course of battle than the impact of severe flooding on the outcome of the U.S. Civil War battle of Shiloh, fought between Union and Confederate armies in southwestern Tennessee on 6-7 April, 1862.
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Phillip R. Kemmerly, “Environment and the Course of Battle: Flooding at Shiloh (6-7 April, 1862),” The Journal of Military History 79, no. 4 (October 2015): 1079–1108.