SHILOH
Guidebook
1941
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CONTENTS

Cover

Shiloh National Military Park
The Battle of Shiloh
   Significance
   Preliminary Campaign
   The First Day
   The Second Day
Features of Interest
   Monuments
   Shiloh National Cemetery
   Confederate Burial Trenches
   Indian Mounds
Headquarters and Museum

THE COVER

These three symbolic figures representing the Spirit of the South accompanied by Death and Night form the central group of the memorial erected by the United Daughters of the Confederacy on the field at Shiloh



Pittsburg Landing, where the Federal Army encamped, was an important commercial port before the War between the States and continued to be a regular stopping point for river traffic on the Tennessee River until the advent of high speed and hard surfaced roads



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1941

UNITED STATES DEPARTMENTOF THE INTERIOR
HAROLD L. ICKES, Secretary

NATIONAL PARK SERVICE • NEWTON B. DRURY, Director





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