The three escape Confederate POWs tip their hand to the farmer and his family by referring to Shiloh as Pittsburgh Landing. As the boy puts it, "Only Rebels would call it Pittsburgh Landing. Around here we call it Shiloh." Battles got their names from the use of names in the press. The press in the Northern states did indeed use the name Shiloh, while the press in the Southern states would have used Pittsburgh Landing. But Missouri was a boarder state, with Union and Confederate sympathies blended throughout the state. In fact Confederate sympathy was so rampant that even though Missouri did not secede from the Union, it none-the-less sent representatives to the Confederate Congress in Richmond. Therefore papers throughout Missouri would have used both terms, depending on the sympathies of the owner and editor of the newspaper. This Missouri family, as with all Missourians, would have been exposed to both types of newspapers and therefore would have undoubtably been very familiar with both terms to the point that they would have used both names very freely, despite their own personal viewpoints. Accordingly, they would not have been alarmed to hear the name Pittsburgh Landing in this conversation, and become suspicious that these men were the escaped POWs for that reason. Rather, all they would have need to become suspicious was the sudden appearance of three strangers after the news of the escape from the POW camp had spread.
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