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the ruggles battery is stop four on the auto tour. when confederate infantry attacks on the hornet's nest failed confederate general daniel ruggles concentrated eleven batteries of artillery to bombard this position allowing his infantry to encircle and capture union general benjamin prentiss and 2,100 union troops.
Updated Jan 10, 2012
Address: corinth-pittsburg landing road.
Phone: 731-689-5696
Website: http://www.nps.gov/shil/
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your first stop on a tour of shiloh is the battlefield visitor center. at the visitor center you can get a map of the battlefield and pay for the auto tour fee. see the attached web site for admission and times.
Updated Aug 8, 2011
Address: 1055 pittsburg landing road.
Phone: 731-689-5696
Website: http://www.nps.gov/shil/
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the following things to do tips are a virtual tour of the shiloh battlefield using the park map. the first stop on the auto tour is grant's last line. the artillery batteries along this ridge marks the final position of the union line on april 6 th. on april 7 after grant was reinforced by don carlos buell and lew wallace's forces and he initiated a union counter attack from this point. general lew wallace is an interesting character in u. s. history. during the civil war wallace was considered a mediocre general and did not contribute much to the ultimate union victory in the civil war. after the war wallace become internationally famous for his novel "ben hur".
Updated Aug 8, 2011
Address: pittsburg landing road.
Phone: 731-689-5696
Website: http://www.nps.gov/shil/
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shiloh church is stop five on the auto tour. the battle was named after the shiloh meeting house. the meeting house was destroyed during the battle and the building you see today is a replica. this was the site of fierce fighting during the battle.
Updated Aug 8, 2011
Address: corinth road
Phone: 731-689-5696
Website: http://www.nps.gov/shil/
rhea springs and field is stop six on the auto tour. exposed from converging fire from union troops defending shiloh church confederate forces here sustained devastating losses on april 6 th. located near the spring and in rhea field are confederate burial trenches.
Updated Aug 8, 2011
Address: peabody road.
Phone: 731-689-5696
Website: http://www.nps.gov/shil/
fraley field is stop seven on the auto tour. fraley field was the site of the first engagement of the battle of shiloh. at 4:55 am april 6 th confederate pickets engaged a union patrol at fraley field.
Updated Aug 8, 2011
Address: reconnoiting road.
Phone: 731-689-5696
Website: http://www.nps.gov/shil/
pictured is the site of a union camp at stop nine on the auto tour. after the engagement at reconnoitering road the confederates invaded the union camps located just north of the road. by 9:00 am the union was forced to flee these camps and retreated north towards pittsburg landing. the confederate advance halted here while they looted the camps.
Updated Aug 8, 2011
Address: intersection peabody & reconnoitering road.
Phone: 731-689-5696
Website: http://www.nps.gov/shil/
the hornet's nest is stop ten on the auto tour. the area called the hornet's nest was the site of the fiercest fighting of the battle of shiloh. thousands of union and confederate soldiers died here as well as union general w. h. l. wallace and confederate general albert johnston.
Updated Aug 8, 2011
Address: eastern corinth road
Phone: 731-689-5696
Website: http://www.nps.gov/shil/
the confederate artillery monument is located on eastern corinth road near the hornet's nest. the area around the hornet's nest has a number of state and division monuments honoring the soldiers who fought at the battle of shiloh.
Updated Aug 8, 2011
Address: eastern corinth road.
Phone: 731-689-5696
Website: http://www.nps.gov/shil/
the sunken road runs through the hornet's nest area. this small farm road connects the eastern corinth road to the duncan farm. during the battle of the hornet's nest union general benjamin prentiss held off a confederate advance along the sunken road. later prentiss' troops were defeated and prentiss was taken prisoner by the confederates.
Updated Aug 8, 2011
Address: sunken road.
Phone: 731-687-5696
Website: http://www.nps.gov/shil/
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