A mass grave of confederate dead at Shiloh National Military Park
One of five marked Confederate burial trenches on the battlefield of Shiloh. Early park historians knew the locations of nine, and twelve are believed to exist, but only five are marked now. The battle of Shiloh occurred April 6 and 7, 1862, on the Tennessee River at Pittsburg Landing, near Savannah, Tennessee, between the Union forces of Ulysses S. Grant and Don Carlos Buell and the Confederate forces of Albert Sidney Johnston. Johnston was killed on the first day of battle and command of the Confederate forces passed to Pierre Gustave Beauregard. Although severely mauled on the first day Grant was reinforced on the evening of the 6th and counterattacked the next day driving the Confederates from the battlefield.
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Location: Shiloh National Military Park, 1055 Pittsburg Landing Road Shiloh , TN 38376
Photo credit: © Michael McMurray / Alamy / Afripics
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