Entrance to Shiloh National Cemetery located near Pittsburg Landing. (Click on photo to see caption) |
This is the first gravestone that you see when entering the cemetery, "Henry Burke, Drummer"...(Click on photo to see caption) |
Portions of a poem by Theodore O'Hara appear on plaques throughout the cemetery. (Click on photo for details on O'Hara/poem) |
A panoramic view of a portion of this cemetery. The Tennessee River is not visible, but is located behind those trees. |
"...No more on life's parade shall meet that brave and fallen few..." |
The smaller markers are for those soldiers who are not identified. Sadly, this would be the majority of those buried at Shiloh. |
Confederate Monument - Dedicated in 1917 (Click on photo to see caption, which gives more details about this monument.) |
"The Hornet's Nest" (for more details on this battle, click on this photo) |
From a Union soldier's perspective - The Confederate soldiers would be across this large field by the foliage in the background. |
We are now arriving at one of 5 known Confederate mass graves. |
The cannon balls behind the stone memorial mark the boundary of the mass grave. |
This is a side view - you can see that this is a very large gravesite. |
Turning around from the mass grave, you can imagine the soldiers running across this small pond during the Confederate retreat. |
This is a description of what you might have seen at "Bloody Pond" (not the earlier pond) in April of 1862. |
Today, this pond sits peacefully next to "Peach Orchard" where bullets caused the blossoms to fall like snow. |
Tennessee Monument is very impressive and poignant. |
You can even see the detail on the bottom of the soldier's boots. |
Shiloh Church (copy) - C.S. Gen. Beauregard established his HQ here. Shiloh means "place of peace" in Hebrew. Ironic, huh? |
Interior of church |
Typical "Mortuary Monument". Who was Colonel Everett Peabody? (click on this photo to find out more about him) |