Sky view of Grand Harbor marina

If you look at the google map on our blog, you may click on a view like this for each  stop we take.  Just click the top left icon, within the map, which shows all our stops and then the lower left icon, to change the image.  The top right icon on the map enlarges the map to full screen

Our boat at Grand Harbor marina

Civil War

Shiloh

Confederates had 44,000 men and the Union had 40,000.  There were 23,746 casualties at Shiloh

Monuments are throughout the park, marking troop casualties from each unit.

Throughout the park are guns used by different units of the confederate and union armies.

Confederate Memorial

Monuments throughout the park mark officers who fought there.

Confederates concentrated 11 batteries of artillery to bombard the  Hornets' Nest, well placed union soldiers.  They captured General Benjamin Prentiss and nearly 2,100 Union soldiers.  They believed the tides had changed in their favor.

Shiloh Meeting house, the log Methodist church that gave the battle its name

Inside of Meeting House

Ceiling of Shiloh Meeting House

Tribute to the Minnesota union unit

Water Oaks Pond where the Confederates withdrew and knew victory at Shiloh was gone

Grant came down the Tennessee on Gunboats.  It kept his troops  fresh and  more quickly got to his destination, with all supplies.

Tennessee where gunboats landed (Pittsburg Landing. 

Cemetery for fallen civil war soldiers