For about five years now, I’ve been wanting to go to Shiloh National Military Park in Shiloh, Tennessee. I had trips lined up but something always came up.
SPRINGFIELD Their new book is called the “History of the Springfield Cemetery,” but editors Wayne E. Phaneuf and Joseph Carvalho III say it is about much more than that. “It’s more than just about the cemetery, because it’s really about the history of the city,” says Phaneuf. “It’s the history of the country.” Phaneuf, retired executive editor of The Republican, and Carvalho, retired .
would be this grimsley saddle holste holsters, belt, scabbard and sword carried by major john mcferrin, who was in the 70th ohio infantry serving in sherman s division, assigned to ralph bucklin s brigade. so that would have been on his horse as he participated in the battle. 70th saw significant action. but he would be dead in october 1862 from fever. the majority of the artillery rounds all have provenance to shiloh, recovered through the years from the battlefield, representative of the types of explosive rounds or solid shot utilized here. about half of grant s artillery was rifled artillery. smooth bore. the confederates predominantly smooth bore artillery, about 85%. two gunboats in play at the battle of shiloh. u.s. tyler and lexington. wooden gunboats, in fact. large eight-inchuns and 32-pounders. served well in defense of the left of grant s last line. and then they fired salvos into the confederate-held camps throughout the night of the 6th on into the morning of th
formed this juncture, and we all go at once. grant s division commanders and grant himself were hog-tied from being able to go push the confederates and gain information. so when these skirmishes occur, the union forces react defensively. they defend themselves, okay, they lose some men, they capture a few troops and gain some intelligence, but they never understand what is behind that confederate force out there, and they totally misread it. they think it s reconnaissance in the case of the big april 4th skirmish, they just think it s a large reconnaissance, a mixed one. it s got infantry, it s got cavalry, it s got artillery. they re just trying to get information. they re trying to bite off pieces of our security screen and get information. had they had the ability to go out and push against it, they would find out what was behind it. and what was behind it was this buildup of johnston s army. it s easy to understand how the union forces find themselves surprised here if y
feel of the period. our museum collection here inside the senator is object oriented. we have battle flags that saw service here at shiloh. unique about this flag is that it carries the pittsburgh landing battle honor that was the official name recorded by union forces for the battle of shiloh. united states forces had a tendency to name their battles after geographic land points, in this case the landing being the primary feature here. officially the battle went in as battle of pittsburgh landing. newspaper accounts would talk about the battle of pittsburgh landing. it was referred to as the battle of shiloh and the shiloh name biblical in its connotation meaning place of peace or house of peace took dominance and predominance over the identity of the conflict through time and so it s interesting to see pittsburgh landing on these flags. this was in the possession of lucius d. woodward in the 21st missouri infantry, a unit that participated in the battle with apprentices div