The presenter describes the Battle of Shiloh and the events that led to the creation of this site as a historic spot of land. He also addresses the question of what it means to be “Southern”, the importance of tradition, the closeness to the soil of our ancestors that other secions of the country don’t necessarily have and the formation of the unique Southern culture.
Grady Howell has worked for the Mississippi Department of Archives and History and has written extensively about Mississippi’s Civil War history.