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Shiloh National Military Park 
Location Hardin County, Tennessee & Corinth, Mississippi, USA Nearest city Savannah, Tennessee Coordinates 35°9′9″N 88°19′23″W / 35.1525°N 88.32306°WCoordinates: 35°9′9″N 88°19′23″W / 35.1525°N 88.32306°W Area 3,996.64 acres (16.173 km2) Established December 27, 1894 Visitors 315,296 (in 2005) Governing body National Park Service Shiloh National Military Park preserves the American Civil War Shiloh and Corinth battlefields. The main section of the park is in the unincorporated town of Shiloh, about nine miles (14 km) south of Savannah, Tennessee, with an additional area located in the city of Corinth, Mississippi, 23 miles (37 km) southwest of Shiloh. The Battle of Shiloh began a six-month struggle for the key railroad junction at Corinth. Afterward, Union forces marched from Pittsburg Landing to take Corinth in a May siege, then withstood an October Confederate counter-attack.
Contents
Shiloh National Military Park
Iowa Monument, the tallest monument in the park
The Sunken Road
Shiloh National CemeteryShiloh battlefield
Main article: Battle of ShilohThe Battle of Shiloh was one of the first major battles in the Western Theater of the American Civil War. The two-day battle, April 6 and April 7, 1862, involved about 65,000 Union troops under Ulysses S. Grant and Don Carlos Buell and 44,000 Confederates under Albert Sidney Johnston (killed in the battle) and P.G.T. Beauregard. The battle resulted in nearly 24,000 killed, wounded, and missing. The two days of fighting did not end in a decisive tactical victory for either side —the Union held the battlefield but failed to pursue the withdrawing Confederate forces. However, it was a decisive strategic defeat for the Confederate forces that had massed to oppose Grant's and Buell's invasion through Tennessee. The battlefield is named after Shiloh Methodist Church, a small log church near Pittsburg Landing, Tennessee.
Corinth battlefield
Main article: Siege of CorinthAfter the Battle of Shiloh, the Union forces proceeded to capture Corinth and the critical railroad junction there. On September 22, 2000, sites associated with the Corinth battlefield (see First and Second Battles of Corinth) were added to the park. The Siege and Battle of Corinth Sites was designated a National Historic Landmark on May 6, 1991.,[1][1][2]
Park information
- Total area: 3996.64 acres (16.173 km2)
- Federal area: 3941.64 acres (15.951 km2)
- Nonfederal area: 55 acres (0.22 km2)
The Shiloh National Military Park was established on December 27, 1894. This was due to the requests of local farmers who had grown tired of their pigs rooting up the remains of soldiers that had fallen during the battle, insisting that the federal government do something about it. The park was transferred from the War Department to the National Park Service on August 10, 1933. As with all historic areas administered by the National Park Service, the military park was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on October 15, 1966.
Shiloh National Cemetery
Shiloh National Cemetery is in the northeast corner of the park adjacent to the visitor center and bookstore. Buried within its 20.09 acres (81,300 m2) are 3584 Union dead (of whom 2357 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.
Panoramic view: slide bar to the right.
Shiloh Indian Mounds Site
Shiloh Indian Mounds SiteThe 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 CE.[3]
See also
- Memphis and Charleston Railroad
- List of Mississippian sites
References
- ^ a b "Siege and Battle of Corinth Sites". National Historic Landmark summary listing. National Park Service. http://tps.cr.nps.gov/nhl/detail.cfm?ResourceId=2107&ResourceType=District. Retrieved 2007-10-24.
- ^ Paul Hawke, Cecil McKithan, Tom Hensley, Jack Elliott, and Edwin C. Bearss (January 8, 1991) (PDF). National Register of Historic Places Registration: Siege and Battle of Corinth Sites. National Park Service. http://pdfhost.focus.nps.gov/docs/NHLS/Text/91001050.pdf. Retrieved 2009-06-22 and Accompanying 15 photos, from 19 90.PDF (1.70 MB)
- ^ Paul D. Welch (2005). Archaeology at Shiloh Indian Mounds, 1899-1999. University of Alabama Press. ISBN 978-0817314811.
- The National Parks: Index 2001-2003. Washington: U.S. Department of the Interior.
External links
- NPS website: Shiloh National Military Park
- 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
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- American Civil War battlefields
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- Cemeteries on the National Register of Historic Places in Tennessee
- National Historic Landmarks in Mississippi
- Museums in Hardin County, Tennessee
- American Civil War museums in Tennessee
- Native American museums in Tennessee
- Archaeology museums in Tennessee
- United States National Park Service areas in Mississippi
- Parks in Mississippi
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