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Visiting Shiloh National Military Park
Posted on 6/1/20 at 12:27 pm
Posted on 6/1/20 at 12:27 pm
Does anyone have any recommendations for a battlefield guide? I would prefer to have a CSA oriented guide if possible. I’m looking at the end of June early July to visit. TIA
[Posted this on the travel board last week and got near zero responses so I’ll try the broader audience here
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[Posted this on the travel board last week and got near zero responses so I’ll try the broader audience here
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Posted on 6/1/20 at 12:30 pm to OleWarSkuleAlum
I'd hold off on that trip until 2021.
If rioters don't get you, the aliens likely will.
If rioters don't get you, the aliens likely will.
Posted on 6/1/20 at 12:30 pm to OleWarSkuleAlum
Sounds horribly racist. Stay home or the racists/virus deniers have won.
Posted on 6/1/20 at 12:32 pm to OleWarSkuleAlum
Been to Shiloh, beautiful park. Follow the method of Shelby Foote and plan your tour through the park at the time the battle occurred. Makes for a more memorable experience.
Posted on 6/1/20 at 12:35 pm to Hogwarts
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Been to Shiloh, beautiful park.
There is something alluring about visiting a Civil War battlefield without a Taco Bell in view.
Posted on 6/1/20 at 12:41 pm to OleWarSkuleAlum
Following as I’m planning to go there soon too.
Was hoping for Memorial Day until covid shut it down. Hopefully Labor Day weekend
Was hoping for Memorial Day until covid shut it down. Hopefully Labor Day weekend
Posted on 6/1/20 at 3:04 pm to BeauxNArreaux
I’d call the park and see if they have guides that you could get in touch with.
That battlefield is beautiful by the way. The area by the visitor center near the river is so peaceful.
That battlefield is beautiful by the way. The area by the visitor center near the river is so peaceful.
Posted on 6/1/20 at 3:39 pm to OleWarSkuleAlum
I've hiked all over Shiloh as both a Boy Scout and a troop leader. The place is not exactly crawling with park rangers but you could call ahead and see what they can do to accommodate you. If you do not have any luck then I have two suggestions.
Get the basic Boy Scout hiking trail guide. It will take you all over the park and teach you a lot along the way. The hike itself is 16 miles long.
Read Shiloh 1862 by Winston Groom. It is a good account of the battle and written more from the perspectives of the men who fought it than as a technical manual.
Get the basic Boy Scout hiking trail guide. It will take you all over the park and teach you a lot along the way. The hike itself is 16 miles long.
Read Shiloh 1862 by Winston Groom. It is a good account of the battle and written more from the perspectives of the men who fought it than as a technical manual.
Posted on 6/1/20 at 3:43 pm to OleWarSkuleAlum
I can’t speak on Shiloh but if you’re into civil war sites Antietam really makes you feel like you’ve walked back in time
Posted on 6/1/20 at 3:44 pm to MISSOURI WALTZ
It’s a confusing park because many of the fields were fought over twice and some are heavily forested.
First the rebels drove the Yankees back to the river, then the Yankees rolled them up on the second day when Buell arrived with reinforcements.
I’d recommend trying to follow chronologically so that you can get better perspective as far as what was happening. Otherwise it’s like watching a movie where the scenes are all mixed up.
First the rebels drove the Yankees back to the river, then the Yankees rolled them up on the second day when Buell arrived with reinforcements.
I’d recommend trying to follow chronologically so that you can get better perspective as far as what was happening. Otherwise it’s like watching a movie where the scenes are all mixed up.
Posted on 6/1/20 at 4:00 pm to Hogwarts
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Follow the method of Shelby Foote and plan your tour through the park at the time the battle occurred.
Good idea
Posted on 6/1/20 at 4:00 pm to OleWarSkuleAlum
I suggest checking to see if the park is even open. A national park near me is not only closed, but barricaded.
Posted on 6/1/20 at 4:03 pm to tide06
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It’s a confusing park
Don't forget about Gen. Sherman attacking a small Confederate force at the Fallen Timbers. Unkown to him at the time the Confederates were being led by Col. Nathan Bedford Forrest and Maj. John Hunt Morgan who immediately administered a world class arse whipping on the yankees.
Posted on 6/1/20 at 5:38 pm to PhantomMenace
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suggest checking to see if the park is even open. A national park near me is not only closed, but barricaded.
The website says it is open but the visitors center is closed.
Posted on 6/1/20 at 5:44 pm to MISSOURI WALTZ
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Don't forget about Gen. Sherman attacking a small Confederate force at the Fallen Timbers. Unkown to him at the time the Confederates were being led by Col. Nathan Bedford Forrest and Maj. John Hunt Morgan who immediately administered a world class arse whipping on the yankees.
That's not how it happened at all. The Confederates charged the 77th Ohio and were soon swarmed by an entire brigade of Union infantry. Forrest was lucky to escape with his life as he was severely wounded in the encounter. The 300 Confederates who made the charge were forced to both retreat and give up a field hospital with their wounded to Sherman and his soldiers.
Posted on 6/1/20 at 6:50 pm to RollTide1987
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Forrest was lucky to escape with his life as he was severely wounded in the encounter
Well that’s what happens when you lead the one man charge on horseback and engulf yourself in an entire brigade.
Posted on 6/1/20 at 6:55 pm to OleWarSkuleAlum
Shiloh: A Requiem (April, 1862) is my favorite poem. Let Melville's words remind us of another time our country was deeply divided. Alas, though, as Melville states, all will become "hushed" again, and we will survive.
Skimming lightly, wheeling still,
The swallows fly low
Over the field in clouded days,
The forest-field of Shiloh—
Over the field where April rain
Solaced the parched ones stretched in pain
Through the pause of night
That followed the Sunday fight
Around the church of Shiloh—
The church so lone, the log-built one,
That echoed to many a parting groan
And natural prayer
Of dying foemen mingled there—
Foemen at morn, but friends at eve—
Fame or country least their care:
(What like a bullet can undeceive!)
But now they lie low,
While over them the swallows skim,
And all is hushed at Shiloh.
Skimming lightly, wheeling still,
The swallows fly low
Over the field in clouded days,
The forest-field of Shiloh—
Over the field where April rain
Solaced the parched ones stretched in pain
Through the pause of night
That followed the Sunday fight
Around the church of Shiloh—
The church so lone, the log-built one,
That echoed to many a parting groan
And natural prayer
Of dying foemen mingled there—
Foemen at morn, but friends at eve—
Fame or country least their care:
(What like a bullet can undeceive!)
But now they lie low,
While over them the swallows skim,
And all is hushed at Shiloh.
Posted on 6/1/20 at 7:18 pm to OleWarSkuleAlum
Why would a cuck like you wanna go see where men fought and died
Posted on 6/1/20 at 7:32 pm to OleWarSkuleAlum
Is this “trip“ as make-believe as your fake aeroplane?
Posted on 6/1/20 at 7:47 pm to Strannix
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Why would a cuck like you wanna go see where men fought and died
the dip in my mouth has seen more combat than you 
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