It takes the average reader and 36 minutes to read Shiloh and Other Battles by Joseph Floyd
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
Charles Henry Floyd was born in Medford Massachusetts in 1842 and he moved to Quincy Illinois prior to the Civil War to work as a railroad clerk. At the age of 19 he joined the 50th Regiment Illinois Volunteer Infantry, Company D, as a corporal at the beginning of the war in August 1861. He was promoted to sergeant a month before the battle of Shiloh and then to 2nd Lieutenant later in 1862. He mustered out at the end of the war in July 1865 with the rank of 1st Lieutenant. Toward the end of the war he served as an aide-de-camp to Brigadier General William Vandever and also to Colonel Richard Rowett. The 50th Illinois were part of Sherman and Grant's Army. Charles Floyd fought under Sherman at Fort Henry, Fort Donelson, Shiloh, Corinth, Atlanta, Resaca, Allatoona, March to the sea, Siege of Savannah, Salkehatchie Swamps and Bentonville, and he was present at the surrender of Johnson and his army. Lieutenant Floyd was captured for three days during the Campaign of the Carolinas.
Shiloh and Other Battles by Joseph Floyd is 36 pages long, and a total of 9,216 words.
This makes it 12% the length of the average book. It also has 11% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes and 50 minutes to read Shiloh and Other Battles aloud.
Shiloh and Other Battles is suitable for students ages 8 and up.
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