Shiloh National Military Park

Union cannons on a battle line

the Tennessee River

Union reinforcements arrived on ships here in the evening after the first day of the battle.

Historical markers help visitors find important points and locations of different regiments.

Union monument depicting the battle

The “Sunken Road”

some of the fiercest fighting took place here on the first day of the battle.

“Bloody Pond”

Where wounded and dying soldiers from both sides drank and rested after the battle

Battlefield Monuments

Living History reenactors and army camps help visitor’s see

what life was like for the soldiers.

Shiloh National Military Park

• The Battle of Shiloh was fought on April 6-7, 1862 in Shiloh, Tennessee. The battle is also known by the name of Pittsburg’s Landing. On the morning of April 6th, Confederate troops under General Albert Sidney Johnston attacked encamped Union troops under Ulysses Grant. The Confederate offensive took the Federal soldiers by surprise, but by the end of the first day, the Union troops, although pushed back, had not been defeated. As night fell, reinforcements arrived on the Tennessee River and on the next day, a Union counter-offensive drove the Confederates from the battlefield. Both sides suffered heavy losses. This was the first major battle of its magnitude in the Civil War.