The William Manse George cabin is located at the north end of the Peach Orchard at Shiloh. What makes this cabin so special you ask? Well, what makes this cabin special is the simple fact that it was a “witness” to the Shiloh battle. This is the only structure on the current day battlefield that [...]

We tend to take the term lightly-field hospital. It is a commonly used term in this day in age, and a phrase that everyone has heard often and can associate with. We all know what a field hospital is, and what purpose it has. But the field hospital at Shiloh was different, because it was [...]

Fraley Field sits in the southwest corner of the Shiloh battlefield. It is the spot where the Shiloh battle started and was honestly a favorite stop on the battlefield tour for me. I’m not sure if it was because the wife and I endured trampling through a mud pit to reach the field, or if [...]

Albert Sydney Johnston was the commander of the Army of Mississippi during the battle of Shiloh. General Johnston was actually commander of the U.S. Department of the Pacific in California, at the outbreak of the Civil War, and was approached by some Californians to take his army and go east to support the Union and [...]