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Shiloh National Military Park

  • Also Known As: NR Control No. 0224762620
  • Type: Battle site
  • Travel Genus: Sight
  • Sight Category: Historic District

Bloody Shiloh...

"No soldier who took part in the two day's engagement at Shiloh ever spoiled for a fight again," recalled one Union veteran. "We wanted a square, stand-up fight [and] got all we wanted of it." Besides preserving the site of the bloody April 1862 battle in Tennessee, the park commemorates the subsequent siege, battle, and occupation of the key railroad junction at nearby Corinth, Mississippi. - NPS


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Shiloh Indian Mounds Site
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E of Hurley in Shiloh National Military Park

Timeline

Y/M/D Person Association Description Composition Food Event
Y/M/D Person Association Description Composition Food Event
1862/04/00 P G T Beauregard Confederate Commander Battle of Shiloh
1862/04/00 Col Thomas Marshall Preston Died Colonel Thomas Marshall Preston, serving on the staff of Confederate General Albert Sydney Johnston, is killed at the Battle of Shiloh. Battle of Shiloh
1862/04/00 Gen William Worth Belknap Union Commander Battle of Shiloh
1862/04/00 Lew Wallace Union commander Battle of Shiloh
1862/04/06 George E Dixon, CSA Confederate Sergeant Company A, 21st Alabama Infantry Regiment loses 200 men killed or wounded out of 650 at the Battle of Shiloh. Sergeant Dixon is severely wounded in the left leg. A $20 gold coin he carried as a good luck piece saved his leg, and possibly his life. George Dixon Gold Coin Battle of Shiloh
1862/04/06 Capt G J George Union Commander When the Rebels make their first grand charge on the Union lines, Capt G J George watches William Newby of Co D, 40th Illinois Infantry is shot in the head. Battle of Shiloh
1862/04/06 Major Charles Foster Union Commander Charles Foster is wound slightly in left arm at Shiloh, Tenn. Battle of Shiloh
1862/04/07 Anatole Placide Avegno Major CSA Confederate States Army Major Anatole Avegno (13th Louisiana Reg Volunteers, "F" and "S" Company of the Louisiana Regiment) is killed at the Battle of Shiloh. Battle of Shiloh
1862/04/09 Capt G J George Union Commander A Union burial detail dispatched by Capt G J George report back that William Newby of 40th Illinois Infantry has been buried. G J George reports the death to the government. Battle of Shiloh

Data »

Particulars for Shiloh National Military Park:
Area of Significance Architecture
Criteria Architecture-Engineering
Historic Use Battle site
Building Type Cabin
Owner Federal
Sight Category Historic District
Criteria Historic Event
Building Material Log Architecture
Area of Significance Military
Level of Significance National
Area of Significance Prehistoric



US National Registry of Historic Places Data »

Accurate at time of registration:

PLACE DETAILS
Registry Name:
Registry Address:
Registry Number: 66000074
Resource Type:
Owner: Federal
Architectural Style: Other
Attribute: Log cabin
Other Certification: Additional documentation
Nominator Name: National Military Park
CULTURAL DETAILS
Level of Significance: National
Area of Significance: Prehistoric, Military, Architecture
Applicable Criteria: Event, Architecture-Engineering
Criteria Consideration: Cemetery
Period of Significance: 1875-1899, 1850-1874
Significant Year: 1862, 1894
Historic Function: Defense
Historic Sub-Function: Battle site
Current Function: Recreation and Culture, Landscape, Funerary
Current Sub-Function: Cemetery Park Monument, Marker

Creative Works »

WorkTypeAsNotedInCreatorNote
The Drummer Boy of Shiloh (short story) Short Story Ray Bradbury It was indeed a solemn time and a solemn night for a boy just turned fourteen in the peach field near the Owl Creek not far from the church at Shiloh.

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