[Upstate NY Guy]

Day 1 of the Battle of Shiloh (or Pittsburg Landing) took place in southwestern Tennessee.

This is a great Civil War website that lets you follow the daily events that occurred 150 years ago.

[Travis McGee]

The battlefield at Shiloh is a real treasure. If anybody is traveling in the area, they should plan to stop by for a few hours.

The monuments built after the war are very impressive. Just check out some of the images on this google page for “shiloh battlefield monuments.”

https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&sugexp=frgbld&tok=SaiHkU2WUQHU8PgG56K7_w&cp=10&gs_id=2z&xhr=t&q=daniela+pestova&biw=1024&bih=625&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_cp.r_qf.,cf.osb&wrapid=tljp1333709632843044&um=1&ie=UTF-8&tbm=isch&source=og&sa=N&tab=wi&ei=ndR-T6DSHI2I8QTszvC8Bw#um=1&hl=en&tbm=isch&sa=1&q=shiloh+battlefield+monuments&oq=shiloh+battlefield+monuments&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&gs_l=img.12...373781l385922l0l387828l29l24l0l7l0l0l1672l4126l3-2j2j0j1j0j1l6l0.frgbld.&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_cp.r_qf.,cf.osb&fp=a935605eb7ba4d18&biw=1024&bih=625

[IronJack]

The greatest loss for the Confederacy at Shiloh wasn’t the battle. It was Albert Sydney Johnston. Like the death of Stonewall Jackson later, Johnston’s demise took from the South one of their greatest advantages: their commanders. To lose such a talent so early in the war cost the Grey dearly.

[Mercat]

Growing up I heard the story about my great-grandfather who had died I believe when my father was a baby that he had fought on both sides of Civil War. He was born and raised in what is now West Virginia, near Parkersburg, and when the war started, he got on his horse and joined a Confederate militia group and fought at Shiloh Church. The Confederates called it Shiloh Church, not Shiloh.

He was captured and taken to a prison camp in Ohio. His father and brother came and paroled him on condition that he would join the Union army which he did. He then fought at Cedar Creek, the battle in Virginia which may have helped Lincoln get elected. General Sheridan on his black horse was the subject of a poem called Sheridan’s Ride.

[stansblugrassgrl]

I do believe that is the battle that is re-acted around our church building very year. We hold church in a historic building at the Pioneer Living History Museum in far north Phoenix. We have both Confederate and Union soldiers at the service who usually have camped out to fight the battle in the morning.

Towards the end of the service, they slip out the back. Then, we start hearing the cannon and musket fire. As we leave, the same soldiers that sat through church are now chasing each other around creosote bushes and saguaro cactus. Gives one a different perspective on history.