6/13/15 - Shiloh National Battlefield, TN

Today we drove to Shiloh National Battlefield.  This early battle in the Civil War was fought on April 6 & 7, 1862, between Gen. Ulysses S. Grant’s Union Army and Gen. Albert Sidney Johnston’s Confederate Army.  About 100,000 men fought and there were 23,476 casualties in the two day battle.  There were more American casualties in this one battle than in all the wars prior to it.  We watched a really informative 45 minute movie about Shiloh and went to two demonstrations.  One was on musket firing and one was about the importance of the drum corps.  We drove around the park and stopped at several of the monuments and buildings.  We also saw a few Indian mounds on the bank of the Tennessee River.