Pittsburg Landing

Civil War, Road Trip, States, Tennessee

Today it Shiloh National Military Park is a peaceful place as it was in the first days of April 1862 when Grant’s Army was encamped between this Tennessee River landing and Shiloh Church two miles away.  Then things changed dramatically in the predawn hours of Sunday April 6th. One of the most significant battles  of the American Civil War was fought here. The two sides sustained casualties of more than 23,000.  Many thousands of young men were laid  to rest in what is now a National Cemetery and in Confederate graves on the battlefield. It’s a place to pause, to learn, and to reflect.

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