Shiloh National Military Park

Today we visited Shiloh National Military Park, the site of one of the deadliest battles of the Civil War up to that time. It’s both amazing and sad to see battlefields like this. Amazing to see how wars were fought at the time and how close the soldiers were to each other, and Sad to see how cruel people can be and all the pain that is caused. But we need to remember our history and the reasons for the war. Here are some pictures of the Park:

This is the Confederate Memorial, along with the sign that explains the meaning of the images, which illustrate the emotions of the soldiers.

The battlefield is really made up of many fields and forested areas. There were farms, orchards and homes spread out throughout the area of the battle. This line 53 of Confederate cannons spread over 1/2 mile! There are state memorials throughout the National Park, commemorating the units of soldiers from different states.

Federal ships brought supplies and troops to aid in the battle, and bombed the Confederate troops from the Tennessee River.

There is a National Cemetery at the National Park, and it only has union soldiers, whose bodies were moved here when it was created. Confederate soldiers are buried throughout the park and there are also 5 mass burial sites. Many of the graves in the cemetery are for unidentified soldiers.

We saw a deer and by the time I got my camera ready it was spooked.

We drove through a lot of countryside today to get to the National Park and yesterday to go to Jackson, and are fascinated by what we saw. In the rural areas outside the cities, houses often sit on very large lots- several acres. You will see a large, very nice home, and it may be next to a much smaller house, or a field of wheat or corn, or even a very old and dilapidated single-wide trailer with lots of junk surrounding it! This is very different from at home, and I wonder what this does to the property values of the big houses?

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