October 31
We visited Shiloh Battlefield in Tennessee. America's best preserved battlefield site of the Civil War's first major combat is located on 4,200 acres overlooking the Tennessee River with 156 monuments, 217 cannons, and more than 650 historic tablets. Fought April 6th and 7th, 1862, Shiloh, also known as the "Battle of Pittsburgh Landing", gave General U. S. Grant his sternest test, and witnessed the death of General Albert Johnston, the highest ranking American ever killed in combat. Ken and I took a ten mile self-guided driving tour which began at the Visitors Center, which featured a short orientation film. The battle had 23,746 casualties.
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| Shiloh Battlefield Memorial |
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| Farley Field where the battle began at 4:55 AM April 6th when Confederate pickets engaged a Union patrol. |
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| Shiloh Monument with cannons. |
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| Shiloh Meeting House, the Methodist log church that gave the battle its name. |
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| Shiloh Confederate Monument marks where Southern troops encircled and captured 2,100 Union troops at the Hornet's Nest |
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