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Monument marks where Union General W.H.L Wallace was mortally wounded April 6, 1862.
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| W.H.L.Wallace died with his wife at his side in Savannah, Tenn., downriver from Shiloh. |
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On a beautiful spring day at Shiloh, purple wildflowers sprouted by a cannon wheel and yellow daffodils bloomed by a monument in Sarah Bell’s Peach Orchard. Pristine and so well-maintained by the National Park Service, Shiloh is a jewel. “This here sticks," the park's longtime chief engineer Atwell Thompson described the remoteness of the area in 1899. It remains remote today. A blessing for all of us.
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A soldier stands watch on the 77th Pennsylvania monument while a jet flies overhead.
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| A beautiful bas-relief plaque on the side of the base of the 77th Pennsylvania monument. |
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| A reconstruction of Shiloh Church near the site of the wartime structure. |
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A close-up of the mortuary cannon that marks location of the mortal wounding
of Union colonel Julius Raith, an immigrant from Germany. |
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| A tablet for Robertson's Battery needs painting. The unit shelled Union positions in the Hornets' Nest. |
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| A sign of spring at Shiloh near a weapon of war. |
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| Ornate carving on an Ohio monument. |
PANORAMA: The Bloody Pond (Click at upper right for full-screen experience.)
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SOURCE: Smith, Timothy,
This Great Battlefield of Shiloh, The University of Tennessee Press, Knoxville, 2004.
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