Last updated: December 3, 2022
Place
Pittsburg Landing - Tour Stop #22
NPS Photo/Mekow
Quick Facts
Location:
Shiloh National Military Park
Significance:
Civil War Battlefield
Designation:
National Park
Amenities
1 listed
Historical/Interpretive Information/Exhibits
The roads linking this landing southward to Corinth, Mississippi, was one of the reasons William T. Sherman selected this site to stage the Federal army in mid-March. Key to the battlefield, the failure of the Confederate army to seize or deny use of the landing permitted Buell's Army of the Ohio to reinforce Grant's bloodied army during the night of April 6-7.