Shiloh
my great granddaddy fought at Shiloh
I am thankful that he survived
I was feeling all sorry for him til I found his medical records . . . "scratch on nose from shell splinter." Ha!
But he was later wounded pretty severely in the shoulder at Nashville, and was troubled by that wound for the rest of his long life (he died in 1917).
On the other hand, the husband of my ggg grandfather Bale's eldest daughter (the same ggg grandfather who lost two sons), John Stewart, was killed at Shiloh and his body was never found.
My great-great-granddaddy also fought at Shiloh with the 18th Alabama infantry...and survived. Married the daughter of his best friend, a fellow soldier.