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Map of Shiloh National Military Park in Tennessee. The park is outlined and shaded in green, and the surrounding area is in beige. The Tennessee River, represented in blue, curves down the east border of the park. A tour route is shown with a green line and passes 22 numbered sites.

Extended Description

The Visitor Center, which has a bookstore, and Shiloh National Cemetery, which has the Grant headquarters monument, are near the northeast corner of the park. In addition to the tour stop numbers, the Mortuary monuments and the Headquarters monuments are labeled along the way. This description will follow the path along numbered stops, which create angular and overlapping figure eights across the park.

The tour route begins near the Visitor Center and travels on Pittsburg Landing Road past Stop #1 and near Wallace, Tuttle, and the Sweeny headquarters monuments. The tour route turns south on Corinth-Pittsburg Landing Road and travels past the Confederate Memorial as well as Stop #2, then the Wallace mortuary monument, Stop #3, the Ross headquarters monument, Stop #4, and the Raith mortuary monument.

After a brief time on Hamburg-Purdy Road, the tour route continues south on Corinth Road to the Sherman headquarters monument, Shiloh Church and Confederate burial trench, numbers 5 and 6. Number 7 is at Fraley Field, which has restrooms. Now headed east, Reconnoitering Road passes number 8 before shifting to Peabody Road and the Peabody mortuary monument and then turning north on Eastern Corinth Road to pass number 10.

Eastern Corinth ends at Corinth-Pittsburg Landing Road. Just north of number 2, Jones Fields Road branches north and then west to pass another Confederate burial trench and numbers 11 and 12. The route turns south past 12 to pass two more Confederate burial trenches, numbers 13 and 14, and close to the McClernand and McDowell headquarters monuments. The tour path resumes on Hamburg-Purdy Road to travel past number 15 as well as the Prentiss and Stuart headquarters monuments.

The tour route turns north to pass numbers 17, 18, and 19 and the Johnston mortuary monument, an access road leading to W. Manse George cabin, and restrooms on the Hamburg-Savannah Road. Headed east on Browns Landing Road the route passes the Hurlbut headquarters monument, Shiloh Indian Mounds Interpretive Trail, and Shiloh Indian Mounds National Landmark. The final leg travels north past numbers 20, 21, and 22 on Dill Branch Road.

Legend

A scale in the top left corner of the map measures distances of 0.1, 0.5, and 1 kilometers and 0.1, 0.5, and 1 miles. The legend below reads as follows:

Green circle around a white number for Tour stop (see description at left),

Green line for Tour route,

Black double dashed line for Historic road trace (hiking use only),

Black dashed line for Hiking trail,

Symbol for restrooms,

Tall triangle for the Mortuary monument, and

Short triangle for the Headquarters monument.

Another legend in the top right corner of the map begins with this text: Key to Troop Position Tablets on the Battlefield: Read each tablet facing the same direction as the troops mentioned at that point in the battle. Troop position markers are coded by shape and color. Large rectangular tablets give historical information about the armies and units engaged.

Purple rectangle outline for Confederate Army of the Mississippi,

Blue rectangle outline for Federal Army of the Tennessee, and

Yellow rectangle outline for Federal Army of the Ohio.

Small rectangular tablets mark troop positions on the first day of battle, April 6.

Purple rectangle with rounded corners for Confederate Army of the Mississippi,

Blue rectangle with rounded corners for Federal Army of the Tennessee, and

Yellow rectangle with rounded corners for the Federal Army of the Ohio.

Oval tablets mark troop position on the second day of battle, April 7.

Purple oval outline for Confederate Army of the Mississippi,

Blue oval outline for Federal Army of the Tennessee, and

Yellow oval outline for the Federal Army of the Ohio.