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Jun 26, 2022 · Shiloh Battlefield Visitor Center Open: 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. daily. Location: 1055 Pittsburg Landing Road Shiloh, TN 38376 Phone: (731) 689-5696 Closures: Closed Thanksgiving Day, Christmas Day, and New Year's Day. Special Programs: Special programs will be held Memorial Day weekend with a cemetery service on Memorial Day in the Shiloh ...
Jul 16, 2023 · Producing more than 23,000 casualties, the battle was the largest engagement in the Mississippi Valley campaign during the Civil War. Originally under the War Department, Shiloh National Military Park was transferred to the National Park Service in the Department of the Interior in 1933.
Shiloh Battlefield. See It Now! Shiloh is one of the best preserved Civil War battlefields anywhere. Within the nearly 4,000-acre Shiloh National Military Park you can visit historic sites like the Bloody Pond, Hornet's Nest, Pittsburg Landing and the General Albert Sidney Johnston death site.
The Battle of Shiloh was one of the first major battles in the Western Theater of the American Civil War. The two-day battle, April 6–7, 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.
Nov 9, 2009 · The Battle of Shiloh, also known as the Battle of Pittsburg Landing, took place from April 6 to April 7, 1862, and was one of the major early engagements of the American Civil War....
The Battle of Shiloh, was a horrific struggle fought in the tangled woods and small farm fields of southwestern Tennessee on April 6-7, 1862. It pitted Confederate Generals Albert S. Johnston and P. G. T. Beauregard against Union General Ulysses S. Grant. What to do: Start at the National Park Service Visitor Center.
Apr 2, 2024 · Battle of Shiloh, (April 6–7, 1862), second great engagement of the American Civil War, fought in southwestern Tennessee, resulting in a victory for the North and in large casualties for both sides. In February, Union General Ulysses S. Grant had taken Fort Henry on the Tennessee River and Fort Donelson on the Cumberland.
