Epic Novels of the American Civil War
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A Welcome Message From Sean K. Gabhann
You have landed at Sean Gabhann’s author website, either intentionally or through fortunate circumstance. I welcome you to visit with us for a while to explore America’s past. My novels seek to provide readers in the general public an alternative from the arid and superficial understanding of American history offered by most education resources. They reveal the past through a vivid immersion into the lives of the ordinary people of the times, men and women.
Grant’s Winter Campaign of 1862
Battles described in Shiloh Trilogy.
Grant’s Winter Campaign of 1862
Battles described in Shiloh Trilogy.
The Women of the Shiloh Trilogy
Katherine (Katie) Malloy
Margaret (Maggie) Warren
Eleanor St. Croix
Loreena Bosley
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First Iowa Volunteer Mounted Infantry
When preparing the back-story for the characters in the Shiloh Trilogy, I needed to identify a particular fictional Union regiment as the home for Jamie Harper, Joshua Featherstone, Gus Magnusson, Johnny Cooke, and the others. I wanted to identify a unit which could...
Sharps Rifle with Telescopic Sight
While planning to write a series of historical novels set in the American Civil War (ACW) I needed to decide what would be the firearm of choice for the main character, James (Jamie) Harper. Although he serves in an infantry unit, I wanted Harper and his battalion to...
The Tale of Katie Malloy
When I write, I use the close third person point-of-view (POV) to tell the stories in The Shiloh Trilogy. I actually have three POV characters. First, is Jamie Harper, an officer in the Union army and nominally the lead protagonist in all three books – he is the title...
General Gideon J Pillow Part 2
Although Gideon Pillow had opposed secession, Governor Isham Harris appointed him the senior major general in the Tennessee Militia as of May 9, 1861. In July, Jefferson Davis appointed him as brigadier general in the Confederate States Army. He commanded the troops...
Commander Series No. 3: General Gideon J Pillow Part 1
We continue the discussion of Confederate generals at Fort Donelson to escape the surrender with the second-in-command, Gideon J. Pillow, who had himself and his chief-of-staff rowed across the Cumberland River after being placed in command by the fleeing John B....
The Seven Percent Solution
This month, I’d like to take another story from Statesmen of the Confederate Cause by Burton J. Hendrick to tell the tale of the $15,000,000 in Confederate bonds. Having failed to gain English and French recognition in the first year of the American Civil War, the...
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Sean K. Gabhann
Sean Kevin Gabhann is a Vietnam Era combat veteran who first became interested in American Civil War history during the centennial celebration. He owns an extensive library of primary and secondary material covering the period. He especially loves to write about the War in the West because of a fascination with the careers of U.S. Grant and W.T. Sherman. Gabhann lives with his wife, Lourdes, in San Diego, California.
