Shiloh

Shiloh National Military Park

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Visited March 29, 2003 GPS [35.168661, -88.495923]

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Shiloh Log Church

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Grant's orders were to "Hold the sunken road at all costs."

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The Confederate artillery lined up sixty-two cannons at point blank range and fired on the sunken road.

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The final number of dead or missing was 13,000 on the Union side and 10,500 on the Confederate side.

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To the confederate dead in the trenches. Erected by the Tenn. Division United Daughters of the Confederacy, 1935

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Illinois Marker

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BURIAL PLACE 48th ILLINOIS INFANTRY, Bodies removed to Nat'l. Cemetery.

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GENERAL ALBERT SIDNEY JOHNSTON, Commanding the Confederate Army. Was mortally wounded here at 2:30 p.m., April 6, 1862 Died in ravine, 50 yards south-east at 2:45 p.m.

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Bloody Pond --- Near the Peach Orchard, wounded soldiers crawled to this pond to quench their thirst which turned the water red.

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Headquarters General U. S. GRANT Night of April 6, 1862.

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Army of the Mississippi (back of monument west side) ERECTED BY THE UNITED DAUGHTERS OF THE CONFEDERACY TO HONOR THE MEMORY OF THE MEN WHO SERVED THE CONFEDERATE STATES OF AMERICA (back of monument east side) LET US CONVENANT EACH WITH THE OTHER AND EACH WITH THOSE WHOSE SACRIFICES HALLOW THIS FIELD TO STAND FOR PATRIOTISM, PRINCIPLE AND CONVICTION AS THEY DID EVEN UNTO DEATH.

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The Hornets Nest

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Shiloh National Cemetery --- was established in 1866 and has more than 3,500 Union graves

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Shiloh National Cemetery