Shiloh’s Casualties - Shiloh TN
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Don.Morfe
N 35° 08.519 W 088° 21.038
16S E 376961 N 3889623
Statistics alone do not reveal the magnitude of human suffering and loss at Shiloh. In the battle’s aftermath, the piteous cries of the wounded and dying filled these woods.
Waymark Code: WM12PBB
Location: Tennessee, United States
Date Posted: 06/25/2020
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Shiloh’s Casualties-Shiloh National Military Park-- Statistics alone do not reveal the magnitude of human suffering and loss at Shiloh. In the battle’s aftermath, the piteous cries of the wounded and dying filled these woods. Everywhere the ground was strewn with bodies. The grotesque appearance of many of the corpses shocked eyewitnesses.
Because of the warm weather, General Grant ordered the Federal troops to bury the dead immediately. Many were buried in large trenches, Union and Confederate separately. In the mass grave in front of you the bodies of more than 700 Confederate soldiers were stacked in layers seven deep.
Group that erected the marker: National Park Service, U.S. Department of the Interior.
URL of a web site with more information about the history mentioned on the sign: [Web Link]
Address of where the marker is located. Approximate if necessary:
Loop road to Confederate Burial Trench
Shiloh National Military Park
Shiloh, TN USA
38376
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