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U. S. CIVIL WAR
PHOTOGRAPHS
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SHILOH
(PITTSBURG LANDING)
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Location of the Shiloh Field Hospital
After the Battle of Shiloh, Federal soldiers buried the dead, and medical
officers faced the enormous task of caring for the 16,400 wounded. Many were
crowded onto steamboats for transport to Northern cities, while others were
taken to nearby homes. Some of the wounded received professional medical
treatment here.
On this high ground, surrounding the farm house of Noah Cantrell, medical
officers of the Union Army of the Ohio set up a large field hospital under
canvas. Tents, bedding, and supplies were secured from the infantry camps to
accommodate some 2,500 sick and wounded.
Ordinarily, regiments took care of their own wounded. Here was the first
consolidated tent hospital --- a forerunner of modern military field hospitals.
Asst. Surgeon Benard J. D. Irwin established and organized the hospital.
Union and Confederate soldiers alike were given excellent treatment,
considering the lack of supplies, the horrible nature of the wounds, and
the great number of patients.
Ohio Monument at the Field Hospital Location
[Front of Monument]
OHIO
71ST INFANTRY,
COMMANDED BY
COL. RODNEY MASON,
STUART'S
(2D) BRIGADE,
SHERMAN'S
(5TH) DIVISION,
ARMY OF THE
TENNESSEE.
[Back of Monument]
This regiment formed line of battle here at 11 a.m., April 6, 1862, but
was soon driven back to the ravine in the rear. Lt. Col. Barton S. Kyle
was killed while attempting to rally the regiment. Its loss was 1 officer
and 13 men killed; 44 men wounded; 1 officer and 50 men missing; total,
109.
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CONFEDERATE DEAD IN TRENCHES
This Trench is the Grave of more than 700 Confederates
Monument at the Trench - Erected 1917
(The red sign post in the background
identifies this as a Confederate grave)
Text on Monument at the Trench
Plaques to the "Unknowns" at the Monument's base.
Another Confederate Trench Grave
Monument at the Trench (Erected 1935)
Statistics alone do not reveal the magnitude of human suffering and loss at
Shiloh. In the battle's aftermath, the piteous cries of the wounded and dying
filled the woods. Everywhere the ground was strewn with bodies.
Because of the warm weather, General Grant ordered the Federal troops to bury
the dead immediately. Many were buried in large trenches. Union and Confederate
separately.
In the mass grave above (top photograph) more than 700 Confederates soldiers
were stacked in layers seven deep.
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