Shiloh National Military Park

Shiloh National Military Park is a unit of the National Park Service in western Tennessee and northern Mississippi. It was established in 1894 to preserve the scene of one of the first major battles in the Western Theater of the American Civil War, the Battle of Shiloh. 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. Strategically, however, it was a decisive defeat for the Confederate forces that had concentrated to oppose Grant's and Buell's invasion through Tennessee. The Union forces proceeded eventually to capture Corinth, Mississippi, and the critical railroad junction there.

The Shiloh battlefield contains about 4,000 acres (16 km²) and has within its boundaries the Shiloh National Cemetery along with the well preserved prehistoric Shiloh Indian Mounds (a National Historic Landmark). The park is located in Hardin County, Tennessee on the west bank of the Tennessee River, and about nine miles (14 km) south of Savannah, Tennessee.

The National cemetery at Shiloh, Tennessee.

On September 22, 2000, sites associated with the Corinth Battlefield (see First and Second Battles of Corinth) were added to the park. Siege and Battle of Corinth Sites was designated a National Historic Landmark on May 6, 1991.

External links

• Geographical coordinates: 35°09′09″N 88°19′23″W
• National Park Service: Shiloh National Military Park