Bruce Guthrie Photos: TN -- Shiloh Natl Military Park -- Visitor Center

TN -- Shiloh Natl Military Park -- Visitor Center -- Notes:

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2013_03_02A_CWT_Shiloh: CWT Color Bearer Thank You Weekend (2013) in Memphis, TN -- Tour of Shiloh (165 photos from 03/02/2013)
2013_03_02C_Shiloh: TN -- Shiloh Natl Military Park (122 photos from 03/02/2013)
2013_03_02F_Shiloh_Fallen: TN -- Shiloh Natl Military Park -- Fallen Timbers (9 photos from 03/02/2013)
2013_03_02E_ShilohNC: TN -- Shiloh Natl Military Park -- National Cemetery (21 photos from 03/02/2013)
2013_03_02D_ShilohVC: TN -- Shiloh Natl Military Park -- Visitor Center (16 photos from 03/02/2013)

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Signage: You'll see a lot of signs in this group. Eventually, I'll type the text of the signs into the subject description and get rid of the signs themselves. This is pretty slow and tedious work though.
AAA "Gem": AAA considers this location to be a "must see" point of interest. To see pictures of other areas that AAA considers to be Gems, click here.
Description of Subject Matter: Shiloh National Military Park was established in 1894 to preserve the scene of the first major battle in the Western theater of the Civil War. The two-day battle, April 6 and 7, 1862, involved about 65,000 Union and 44,000 Confederate troops. This battle resulted in nearly 24,000 killed, wounded, and missing. It proved to be a decisive victory for the federal forces when they advanced on and seized control of the Confederate railway system at Corinth, Mississippi. The battlefield contains about 4,000 acres at Shiloh and an interpretive center at Corinth, Mississippi. The park has within its boundaries the Shiloh National Cemetery along with the well preserved prehistoric Indian mounds that are listed as a historic landmark. The Shiloh battlefield is located in Hardin County, Tennessee, on the west bank of the Tennessee River nine miles southwest of Savannah, Tennessee, with an additional park unit located in the city of Corinth, Mississippi, twenty-three miles southwest of Shiloh.
The above was from the official NPS site at http://www.nps.gov/shil/

Also from that site:
During the winter of 1861-62 Federal forces pushing southward from St. Louis, Missouri, captured Forts Henry and Donelson on the Tennessee and Cumberland Rivers. This action forced Gen. A. S. Johnston to abandon southern Kentucky and much of West and Middle Tennessee, including Nashville. After withdrawing further south, he established a new line covering the Memphis and Charleston Railroad, the only direct railroad link to Richmond and Memphis. Realizing that he could not wait for another Federal advance, Johnston began concentrating 44,000 men at Corinth, Miss., whence he hoped to take the offensive and destroy Gen. U.S. Grant's Union Army of the Tennessee before it could be joined by Gen. D.C. Buell's Army of the Ohio.
The Federals had not expected the rapid collapse of the Southern defenses; thus there was a delay before Grant's Army of the Tennessee, 40,000 strong, moved south along the T ...More...
Wikipedia Description: Battle of Shiloh
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The Battle of Shiloh, also known as the Battle of Pittsburg Landing, was a major battle in the Western Theater of the American Civil War, fought on April 6 and April 7, 1862, in southwestern Tennessee. Confederate forces under Generals Albert Sidney Johnston and P.G.T. Beauregard launched a surprise attack against the Union Army of Maj. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant and came very close to defeating his army.

On the first day of battle, the Confederates struck with the intention of driving the Union defenders away from the Tennessee River and into the swamps of Owl Creek to the west, hoping to defeat Grant's Army of the Tennessee before it could link up with Maj. Gen. Don Carlos Buell's Army of the Ohio. The Confederate battle lines became confused during the fierce fighting, and Grant's men instead fell back in the direction of Pittsburg Landing to the northeast. A position on a slightly sunken road, nicknamed the "Hornet's Nest", defended by the men of Brig. Gens. Benjamin M. Prentiss's and W.H.L. Wallace's divisions, provided critical time for the rest of the Union line to stabilize under the protection of numerous artillery batteries. Gen. Johnston was killed during the first day's fighting, and Beauregard, his second in command, decided against assaulting the final Union position that night.

Reinforcements from Gen. Buell arrived in the evening and turned the tide the next morning, when he and Grant launched a counterattack along the entire line. The Confederates were forced to retreat from the bloodiest battle in United States history up to that time, ending their hopes that they could block the Union invasion of northern Mississippi.

Background and opposing forces:

After the losses of Fort Henry and Fort Donelson in February 1862, Confederate General Albert Sidney Johnston withdrew his forces into western Tennessee, northern Mississippi, and Alabama to reorganize. In early March, Union Maj. Gen. He ...More...
Directly Related Pages: Other pages here that have content directly related to this one: [Display ALL photos]
- 1997_TN_Shiloh: TN -- Shiloh Natl Military Park (29 photos from 1997)
- 1998_TN_Shiloh: TN -- Shiloh Natl Military Park (38 photos from 1998)
- 2007_TN_Shiloh: TN -- Shiloh Natl Military Park (114 photos from 2007)
- 2013_03_02C_Shiloh: TN -- Shiloh Natl Military Park (122 photos from 03/02/2013)
- 2013_03_02E_ShilohNC: TN -- Shiloh Natl Military Park -- National Cemetery (21 photos from 03/02/2013)
- 2013_03_02F_Shiloh_Fallen: TN -- Shiloh Natl Military Park -- Fallen Timbers (9 photos from 03/02/2013)
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2013 photos: So far, I'm mostly using my Fuji XS-1 camera but, depending on the event, I'm also using a Nikon D7000 and Nikon D600. Trips this year have been limited to a Civil War Trust conference in Memphis.
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