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doug48 Says: 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...
doug48 Says: 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.
doug48 Says: 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...
doug48 Says: located near grant's last line is the ohio 5 th cavalry monument. this monument is one of several ohio monuments in the park.
doug48 Says: this impressive monument is dedicated to the soldiers from the state of iowa who fought at the battle of shiloh.
doug48 Says: the michigan monument is on the tour road between stop one and two. the michigan monument honors the soldiers from the state of michigan who fought at the battle of shiloh.
doug48 Says: the confederate monument is stop two on the auto tour. this monument commemorates where confederate troops encircled and captured nearly 2,100 union defenders of the hornet's nest.
doug48 Says: located between tour stop two and three is the headquarters of union general w. h. l. wallace. general wallace was killed during the battle of the hornet's nest on april 6 th 1862.
doug48 Says: 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.
doug48 Says: 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.
doug48 Says: 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.
doug48 Says: 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...
doug48 Says: 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...
confederate artillery monument
doug48 Says: 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.
doug48 Says: 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...
doug48 Says: now my virtual tour of the shiloh battlefield skips to tour stop fourteen on the auto tour. because of time limitations i had to bypass stops 11, 12, and 13. for information on these sites see the attached web site. pictured is the site of the union field hospital. at this...
doug48 Says: auto tour stop fifteen is the general johnston monument. near this site confederate general albert johnston was hit by a stray bullet in the leg and later bled to death. after the death of general johnston general p. g. t. beauregard took over the command of the confederate...
doug48 Says: sarah bell's peach orchard was the site of a confederate attack on the union line on april 6 th. this confederate attack forced the union troops in this area of the battlefield to retreat to pittsburg landing. the union counter attacked on april 7 th and retook the peach...
mrclay2000 Says: Some of the monuments at Shiloh look alike but they generally detail the involvement of different regiments from the various states. It is notorious for contingents from Southern states not to be commemorated with monuments (here and at other parks), while the Northern...
The Meaning Behind the Cannonballs
mrclay2000 Says: The cannonballs represent former headquarters of the field commanders. Here is Albert Sydney Johnston's headquarters site, the man who commanded the Confederate forces until forced to retreat for lack of numbers. Johnston died on the field of battle from a wound to his leg....
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located between tour stop two and three is the headquarters of union general w. h. l. wallace. general wallace was killed during the battle of the hornet's nest...
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the battle of shiloh was fought on april 6 th and 7 th 1862 between the forces of union general ulysses s. grant and the forces of confederate general albert s. johnston. after the confederate losses...
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Where a Misguided Nation Awoke to its Error
In May 1862 on the banks of the Tennessee River near Pittsburg Landing, 40,000 Confederate soldiers pinned 60,000 Federal troops against the river, fighting in the worst combat the young nation had......
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As with many of the Civil War Battlefields, there are many sites you come across in Shiloh that you just look at, read about what happened there, and can't help but be stunned at the war that took...
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In the pages to come, you will see through my eyes and camera viewer, some fantastic clips of the Battle at Shiloh in April 1862. The park has many many cannons placed about the grounds, and if you......
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