@16thAL has started a really informative thread presenting pictures of the monuments and markers of Shiloh. Yet how many markers (called tablets), cannons and monuments are there in the 4,000 plus acres of Shiloh National Military Park?
I have quoted some excerpts from the Wisconsin at Shiloh report of 1909 to provide some answers. Remember these were the facts in 1909 and monuments have been erected and cannons moved to and fro.
Regards
David
What the Shiloh National Military Park Commission Has Done Since Its Organization.
April 7, 1906 Dedication of the Wisconsin Monument
"The United States Government has erected five mortuary monuments to
Wallace,
Peabody and
Raith (
Union),
Johnston and
Gladden (
Confederate). They are of the same design, except that of "Wallace, and are placed where the respective officers fell. There have also been erected by the United States, headquarters monuments, all of the same design, at the places where five division —
McClernand,
W. H. L. Wallace,
Hurlbut.
Sherman, and
Prentiss — and nine brigade —
Hare,
Ross,
Tuttle,
McArthur,
Sweeny,
Veatch,
McDowell,
Stuart and
Peabody — headquarters were located.
There are
226 guns mounted in the park, all in positions where batteries fought on both days and on both sides. They are mounted on cast-iron carriages, the trails and wheels being placed on concrete foundations. These guns mark
127 Union and
99 Confederate battery positions. Iron tablets planted into cement foundations have been erected, showing
226 Union and
171 Confederate positions, with appropriate legends thereon.
In addition to these there are erected
254 more iron tablets, divided as follows:
Union camp tablets, 83;
general historical tablets, 25:
brigade headquarters tablets. 9;
explanatory tablets 6: law tablets 6; iron road signs 90;
grave markers, 35;
grand total of iron tablets, signs and markers, 651, all of a permanent nature. In addition to these, the Government is about to erect one monument to each arm of the service in commemoration of the Infantry, Cavalry and Artillery of the United States Army participating in the battle, an appropriation of $6,000 having been made by the Congress of the United States for that purpose."
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