A Few Shiloh Pics Then and Now

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It is harder than it looks......plus I was not using a lens with a similar focal length. Fun to do though. All modern pics were taken by me last month and all of the old pics from the 1890's are from the book; Images of America, Shiloh National Military Park by Brian K. McCutchen and Timothy B. Smith.


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It is harder than it looks......plus I was not using a lens with a similar focal length. Fun to do though. All modern pics were taken by me last month and all of the old pics from the 1890's are from the book; Images of America, Shiloh National Military Park by Brian K. McCutchen and Timothy B. Smith.

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Very interesting! It never fails to amaze me how much all battlefields seem to have grown up with trees, or put another way, how sparse the battlefields were "then" compared to their current conditions. I think they needed wood for fuel back then more than we do today.
 
Very interesting! It never fails to amaze me how much all battlefields seem to have grown up with trees, or put another way, how sparse the battlefields were "then" compared to their current conditions. I think they needed wood for fuel back then more than we do today.
Many battle fields were on farm land. So there were cleared areas for planting, separated by worm fences, or rock walls with areas for critter's grazing. The critters kept the undergrowth down. I'm sure they also harvested wood for fires too.
 
amazing to look at the tree growth.

I was thinking about a recent trip to Fredericksburg and remember standing on Lee's Hill and reading something saying Lee could see the whole battlefield or close to it, and I was looking out thinking, "what, all I see is trees"

silly me, I forgot to mention how good those photos are, look forward to seeing more!
 
Great photos. Interesting to see how clear and open the forrests are. During a trip there early in the summer, I noticed how everthing was dead from the ground up to about 5 feet---even some tree limbs. I inquired and the Ranger says they do a burn-off of the foilage on a rotating basis.

When were the BEFORE photos dated?
 
Many battle fields were on farm land. So there were cleared areas for planting, separated by worm fences, or rock walls with areas for critter's grazing. The critters kept the undergrowth down. I'm sure they also harvested wood for fires too.
Pittsburg Landing was established as a stop for boats to load up with wood for the boilers. Of course, there was a store (bar) there, but an accident of riverine geography made it possible to pull in really close to shore. The cleared fields were likely cleard a much for steamboat wood as they were for farming.

If I'm not mistaken, it was Sherman on one of his forays toward East Port who reccommended Pittsburg Landing as a spot for gathereing the army on its way to assault Corinth. The guy named Pitt was likely a happy camper for a while.

Shiloh was a church about three miles from the river around which Sherman's division was encamped.

There is one building moved to the the area around the The Peach Orchard. There is no traee that I know of where the Fraley, Seah, and Rhea families lived. There is a reason that the open areas had their names.
 
Great photos. Interesting to see how clear and open the forrests are. During a trip there early in the summer, I noticed how everthing was dead from the ground up to about 5 feet---even some tree limbs. I inquired and the Ranger says they do a burn-off of the foilage on a rotating basis.

When were the BEFORE photos dated?
1890's
 
Greta photos. But what bothers me is letting nature take over. It's nothing like the battle field was. Lack of maintenance, lack of funds, or is it their wish not to disturb anything?
 
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