Shiloh National Military Park
Shiloh National Military Park | |
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Location | Shiloh, Hardin County, Tennessee & Corinth, Mississippi, US |
Nearest city | Savannah, Tennessee |
Coordinates | 35°08′12″N 88°20′26″W / 35.13667°N 88.34056°W |
Area | 9,324 acres (37.73 km2)[1] |
Established | December 27, 1894[2] |
Visitors | 315,296 (in 2005) |
Governing body | National Park Service |
Website | Shiloh National Military Park |
Shiloh National Battlefield | |
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Governing body | National Park Service |
Shiloh National Military Park preserves the
The visitor center provides exhibitions, films and a self-guided auto-tour.
Shiloh battlefield
The Battle of Shiloh was one of the first major battles in the
The battlefield is named after Shiloh Methodist Church, a small log church near Pittsburg Landing, Tennessee. Pittsburg Landing is the point on the Tennessee River where the Union forces landed for the battle; they referred to the battle as "The Battle of Pittsburg Landing".[3]
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Iowa Monument
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The Sunken Road
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Confederate Memorial
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Shiloh National Cemetery
Park information
- Total area: 3,997 acres (16.18 km2)
- Federal area: 3,942 acres (15.95 km2)
- Nonfederal area: 55 acres (0.22 km2)
The Shiloh National Military Park was established on December 27, 1894. In 1904, Basil Wilson Duke was appointed commissioner of Shiloh National Military Park by President Theodore Roosevelt. There were requests of local farmers who had grown tired of their
Visitor center
Permanent exhibitions, films, displays and self-guided 12-mile auto-tour, stopping at the Peach Orchard, the Hornet's Nest and General Johnston's death site.
Shiloh National Cemetery
Shiloh National Cemetery is in the northeast corner of the park[8] adjacent to the visitor center and bookstore. Buried within its 20.09 acres (81,300 m2) are 3,584 Union dead (of whom 2,357 are unknown), who were re-interred in the cemetery created after the war, in 1866. There are two Confederate dead interred in the cemetery. The cemetery operations were transferred from War Department to the National Park Service in 1933. An unknown number of Confederate dead are interred in mass graves in the park.
Shiloh Indian Mounds Site
The Shiloh battlefield has within its boundaries the well preserved prehistoric Shiloh Indian Mounds Site, which is also a National Historic Landmark. The site was inhabited during the Early Mississippian period from about 1000 to 1450.[9]
See also
References
- ^ "Listing of acreage – December 31, 2020" (XLSX). Land Resource Division, National Park Service. Retrieved August 15, 2021. (National Park Service Acreage Reports)
- ^ "Park Anniversaries". Retrieved August 13, 2021.
- ^ Known Southern History
- ^ "Siege and Battle of Corinth Sites". National Historic Landmark summary listing. National Park Service. Archived from the original on June 6, 2011. Retrieved October 24, 2007.
- ^ Paul Hawke; Cecil McKithan; Tom Hensley; Jack Elliott & Edwin C. Bearss (January 8, 1991). "National Register of Historic Places Registration: Siege and Battle of Corinth Sites" (PDF). National Park Service. Retrieved June 22, 2009.
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(help) and, Accompanying 15 photos, from 1990 (1.70 MB) - ^ National Park Travelers Club 2013 Convention Preview. NPTC. Archived from the original on December 22, 2021. Retrieved July 21, 2012.
- ^ [1] American Battlefield Trust "Saved Land" webpage. Accessed November 24, 2021.
- ^ U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Shiloh National Cemetery at 35°09′02″N 88°19′12″W / 35.15056°N 88.32000°W
- ISBN 978-0-8173-1481-1.
- The National Parks: Index 2001–2003. Washington: U.S. Department of the Interior.
External links
- Official website
- Civil War Trails
- NPS Shiloh Auto Tour Map linked to photo galleries
- Guide to records (appropriations and expenditures) for Shiloh National Cemetery, 1913–1933
- Guide to records (general administrative files) of Shiloh National Military Park
- Guide to records (register of visitors) to Shiloh National Cemetery, 1891–1932
- U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Shiloh National Battlefield
- Shiloh National Cemetery at Find a Grave
- Historic American Engineering Record (HAER) No. TN-37, "Shiloh National Military Park Tour Roads, Shiloh, Hardin County, TN", 44 photos, 4 color transparencies, 4 measured drawings, 129 data pages, 5 photo caption pages