Shiloh National Military Park
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| Location | Shiloh, Hardin County, Tennessee & Corinth, Mississippi, USA |
| Nearest city | Savannah, Tennessee |
| Coordinates | 35°08′19″N 88°20′32″W / 35.13861°N 88.34222°WCoordinates: 35°08′19″N 88°20′32″W / 35.13861°N 88.34222°W |
| Area | 3,996.64 acres (16.1738 km2) |
| Established | December 27, 1894 |
| Visitors | 315,296 (in 2005) |
| Governing body | National Park Service |
| Website | Shiloh National Military Park |
Shiloh National Military Park preserves the American Civil War Shiloh and Corinth battlefields. The main section of the park is in the unincorporated town of Shiloh, about nine miles (14 km) south of Savannah, Tennessee, with an additional area located in the city of Corinth, Mississippi, 23 miles (37 km) southwest of Shiloh. The Battle of Shiloh began a six-month struggle for the key railroad junction at Corinth. Afterward, Union forces marched from Pittsburg Landing to take Corinth in a May siege, then withstood an October Confederate counter-attack.
The Battle of Shiloh was one of the first major battles in the Western Theater of the American Civil War. The two-day battle, April 6 and April 7, 1862, involved about 65,000 Union troops under Ulysses S. Grant and Don Carlos Buell and 44,000 Confederates under Albert Sidney Johnston (killed in the battle) and P.G.T. Beauregard. The battle resulted in nearly 24,000 killed, wounded, and missing. The two days of fighting did not end in a decisive tactical victory for either side —the Union held the battlefield but failed to pursue the withdrawing Confederate forces. However, it was a decisive strategic defeat for the Confederate forces that had massed to oppose Grant's and Buell's invasion through Tennessee. The battlefield is named after Shiloh Methodist Church, a small log church near Pittsburg Landing, Tennessee. Pittsburgh Landing is the point on the Tennessee River where the Union Forces Landed for the Battle and referred to the battle as "The Battle of Pittsburgh Landing".
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