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
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