Shiloh: The War is Civil No More

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  @brucealbietz1283 · 1 year ago

  The bravery and courage of soldiers on both sides is astounding to me .

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  @liennitram9291 · 3 years ago (edited)

  I live near Hodgenville Kentucky. The birthplace of Abraham Lincoln. &nbsp;There is a cemetery near there where two soldiers are buried. &nbsp;They are brothers. &nbsp;One was Union, amd the other was Confederate. &nbsp;The Confederate brother was KIA at Shiloh. &nbsp;The Union brother was wounded on the same day, and died from his wounds a few months later. &nbsp;They are buried directly beside each other. &nbsp;A few graves away is the midwife who helped deliver Abraham Lincoln.... To me that is absolutely amazing..... &nbsp;Out in an obscure, very rural pioneer cemetery are buried three people who had a hand in truly determing the world we live in to this day. &nbsp;<br>There also two Revolutionary War soldiers who the name of the county (Larue), and the nearby town (Hodgenville), are named after.

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  @jesseusgrantcanales · 2 weeks ago (edited)

  Reenactor here, this was our unit&apos;s first battle, what a baptism of fire this was!<br><br>Pvt. 49th Ohio Vol. Inf., Co. E.<br>Group from SoCal.

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  @JamesHart62 · 1 year ago

  I was there in 2012, with my Father. Both in Union uniforms. You see my Great Great Grandfather, who I am named after fought there. With the 46 Illinois, Company A. One of the few units that did not retreat. Because there was no place for them to go. I walked the fields and forests, where the battle had happened, in my wool uniform. Toting a Haversack and Cartridge box, and Canteen. It was hard to imagine a fight in woods that thick, but it happened. Something I will never forget.

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  @andrewhoneycutt7427 · 4 years ago

  Thanks for posting this video. Shiloh is the best preserved Civil War battlefield.

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  @UncleDavesKitchen · 3 years ago

  I lived in Athens County as a child in the 1950s and early 1960s. &nbsp;We lived on a dirt and gravel road, had no plumbing, a Coal stove for heat, outhouse out the back door, across the yard and down the hill. &nbsp;Over the years, now and then, maybe 50 times that I recall my grandmother would suddenly say, &quot;they&apos;re coming, get ready, get on the porch, they&apos;re on their way.&quot; &nbsp;She&apos;d comb her hair, put her teeth in, some lipstick and compact and we&apos;d quickly get to the porch swing and look at the empty road. &nbsp;<br><br>Soon, we&apos;d hear men talking, kicking up rocks on the road as they walked. &nbsp;There would be about 30 Civil War Soldiers walking down the hill by our house, behind the barn and up over the next hill out of sight. &nbsp;All in blue uniforms, shot up, dirty, rips and holes, some had guns, most didn&apos;t. &nbsp;They walked slowly, some in groups talking to each other but we couldn&apos;t make out what they said. &nbsp;Some walking alone, some straggling. &nbsp;Every time we saw them it was the same groups, same stragglers. &nbsp;I was a kid and sometimes I&apos;d run up to them wanting to play. &nbsp;They looked like teen agers or a bit older, dirty, not noticing me, I could see up close the holes in their uniforms. &nbsp;They&apos;d walk on and disappear over the next hill and my grandmother and I&apos;d go in the house. &nbsp;How she would know they were coming I don&apos;t know.<br><br>Years later I watched a documentary on the Civil War, after the war the solders had to walk home, rail roads were destroyed, horses killed, no boats left they had to walk. &nbsp;So many soldiers that made it through the war never made it home with the long walk, maybe over 1,000 miles. &nbsp;I wonder if these soldier boys were those soldiers, heading home but never made it, still trying to find home. &nbsp;They were solid, did every movement, walk and talk the same each time and I saw them at least 50 times. &nbsp;At night I&apos;d hear them walking by, recognize the voices and kicking up the gravel rocks in the road. &nbsp; I&apos;ve not been back there in over 50 years, I wonder if the soldier boys ever made it home. &nbsp;I&apos;m retired now and thinking of taking a trip back to Ohio to that spot, not sure if the house is there or not, but wait and see if the soldier boys are still walking by or finally made it home. &nbsp;<br>Here I am telling my story. &nbsp; <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tubg2FIKSeo">https://youtu.be/Tubg2FIKSeo</a>

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  @stephenwilson9872 · 4 years ago

  My dad asked me and my cousin Ruel one day as we were leaving what we learned . <br><br>I said I don’t know?<br><br>So we went through a detailed tour twice in one day.

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  @rev.elsiecompo4542 · 3 years ago

  R.I.P. Pvt Isaac Pickering

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  @garybishop9966 · 2 years ago

  This is the miricle that I am here... Great grandpa fought with the Union and the other great grandpa fought for the Confederate at this battle. Luckly the Union great grandfather was captured the first day and then released a littlle after that. Probable because it was a Civil war. They both fought at the battle for Atlanta. Confederate great grandfather was wounded. That&apos;s all that I could get from relatives in Mississippi. Thank God they both survived that terrible war. Thank God it started the freeing of the slaves...

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  @lololomo5484 · 4 years ago

  The military team that emerged from Shiloh wasn&apos;t just Grant and Sherman. It was Grant, Sherman and Abe Lincoln, who for a time was the only national politician who believed in this man Grant, &quot;who fights.&quot;

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  @jeffbrewer8810 · 3 years ago

  I grew up near Shiloh. &nbsp;My ancestors along with the ancestors of most of my childhood friends, all from North Mississippi, fought at Shiloh. I give a tour of the western flank which is where my second great grandfather fought in Aaron B. Hardcastle’s 3rd Mississippi Battalion. <br><br>The thing I love about these comments is discovering others &nbsp;around the country who also had ancestors there. One person on here had an ancestor in the 22nd or 25th Alabama. That was Gladden’s Brigade of Bragg’s Corp. Your great grandfather was to the right of mine who was in Wood’s Brigade. Shaver’s Brigade was between Wood and Gladden. &nbsp;Another commenter on here had ancestors in the 6th Kentucky, Trabue’s Brigade, Breckinridge’s Reserve Corps. They were on the Confederate far right close to the river. Your other ancestor was in the 28th Tennessee in Statham’s Brigade also in Breckinridge’s Corps. They were in the center right of the battle in the intense fighting In Sarah Bell’s cotton field and peach orchard. These were the troops rallied personally by Confederate General Albert Sidney Johnston after which about 3,000 of them surged forward and broke the Union line around the George farm. Johnston was mortally wounded at the same time and died within minutes. With his death command and control was lost in that area of the field. <br><br>We owe these men much. Regardless of the politics of the war or sectional biases, these men on both sides suffered for two days a maelstrom of shot and shell that the most men today couldn’t imagine let alone endure. &nbsp;I encourage you all to search out your history. It’s important to know who we were. Especially today.

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  @connconagher6155 · 3 years ago

  I was at that reenactment!!! I have this on VHS! I wish I could get it on DVD...

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