... rear, this quadrilateral seemed a safe fastness against attack-hard to assail, easy to defend. Its selection was the dying gift of the soldierly C. F. Smith to his cause. That the strength of Shiloh has not been overstated is evinced by the evidence of General Sherman, given then and afterward. He says, in his Memoirs, vol. i., page 229: The position was naturally strong. .... At a l...