Cemeteries in Shiloh, Tennessee

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Our database contains records of burials from 3 cemeteries.

With the exception of two graves within the national cemetery, most of the Confederate dead from the Battle of Shiloh remain interred in mass graves on the battlefield. Although as many as a dozen mass graves may be on the battlefield, only five have been located and properly marked.

In order to bury the dead not only from the April 6-7, 1862, battle of Shiloh but also from all the operations along the Tennessee River, workers began building the “Pittsburg Landing National Cemetery.” Changed to “Shiloh National Cemetery” in 1889, the cemetery holds 3,584 Civil War dead, 2,359 of them unknown.

Although established as a Civil War burial ground, the Shiloh National Cemetery now holds deceased soldiers from later American wars. Many World War I and II, Korea, and Vietnam burials are in the newest section of the cemetery. There is also one Persian Gulf War memorial.

Three Confederate soldiers are buried at Shiloh National Cemetery. Two died as prisoners of war. Regulations state that Confederate POWs were the responsibility of the Union in life and death.

Albert Sidney Johnston was considered to be the greatest soldier in the country at the outbreak of the American Civil War. In 1861 he joined the Confederate army as a general and was killed the following year at the Battle of Shiloh.

Civil War historian Shelby Foote summarizes the battle: Union losses were 1754 killed, 8408 wounded, 2885 captured: total, 13,047—about 2000 of them Buell's. Confederate losses were 1723 killed, 8012 wounded, 959 missing: total, 10,694.

Many troops on both sides had no experience in battle. The chances for a complete Confederate victory diminished as troops from General Buell's army began arriving, and Grant's command on the battlefield shored up the sagging Union line.

The Confederate Army's February 6 loss at Fort Henry caused it to abandon Kentucky and parts of Tennessee. The last Confederate troops in Nashville moved south on February 23. General Albert Sidney Johnston, Confederate commander of the Western Theater, made the controversial decision to abandon the region.

Confederate losses were 1723 killed, 8012 wounded, 959 missing: total, 10,694. Of the 100,000 soldiers engaged in this first great bloody conflict of the war, approximately one out of every four who had gone into battle had been killed, wounded, or captured.