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| Posted: Sun Jul 27th, 2008 08:55 pm |
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Armchair Confederate, I am a Shiloh Park Ranger stationed at the Corinth Civil War Interpretive Center. I would be delighted to talk to you about Shiloh burials and your quest to find the location of unmarked burial sites. First off I would discourage you from searching for graves within the park boundries without specific written permission by park authorities. All graves on the park, marked or unmaked are protected by law. If you have found a letter or diary entry which sheds light on a possible burial site I would be intrested in seeing it. Please come by the Interpretive Center during your visit so we can meet and shoot the breeze. Ed, concerning the burials at the indian mounds. The 28th Illinois Infantry buried thier dead on top of one of the mounds and these dead were reinterred to the National Cemetery in 1866. Severeal years ago archeologists from the Park Service's Southeast Archeological Center (SEAC) operated a ground penetrating radar unit on top of the mound. The scan revealed a "disturbance" in the soil remained in the grave site but there was insufficent evidence to suggest there were human remains. It is believed that some rubbish or possibly clothing was thrown into the exhumed grave before it was filled back in. If there was the slightest thought that human remains were still in the grave site there would have been a dig on the site for verification. Tom
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| Posted: Sun Jul 27th, 2008 09:53 pm |
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We will definitely not be doing anything illegal. No digging or otherwise disturbing the ground. No removal of anything. Just search about for likely spots. We'll come see you!
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| Posted: Sun Jul 27th, 2008 09:54 pm |
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We won't have any tools but a compass. We really were just looking for a good reason to go the battlefield. Will you be around next weekend? Would love to meet you and talk about the battle etc.
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| Posted: Mon Jul 28th, 2008 02:22 pm |
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Armchair Confederate, I'd be delighted to meet up with you. I am off on Saturday but will be at Shiloh all day on Sunday. It is rare for me to work at the big park but we will be conducting live fire demonstrations of our artillery piece and I will be in the No. 1 position. Tom
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| Posted: Mon Jul 28th, 2008 04:26 pm |
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Bama me too . I was going to meet Tom last year and the National Park service sent him out of town. One of these days . . . . .
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| Posted: Mon Jul 28th, 2008 06:34 pm |
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Gee Bama that's about 90 miles away from where I am. Sounds like you and your whole family will be there. If you have free time go to Old Town and have lunch or dinner . Also go out to Point Loma and see the light house and where Cabrillo landed . Mission San Diego is worth seeing too. Susan
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| Posted: Mon Jul 28th, 2008 07:17 pm |
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Well it is one of the best zoos in the world. Hopefully they will get you on the tram to go around the zoo and then you can sit down. Haven't been down to the zoo since baby panda was born about eight years ago now. Guess it is near time to do the zoo again. Gets expensive though now with gas and the cost of entrance. Was a zoo member for a while . Sounds like you have a busy week. Have a good one . Hope the weather is good for you . It usually is in San Diego. Susan
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| Posted: Tue Jul 29th, 2008 02:24 pm |
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browner nitap
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Hi Ed. Tom is out of building at moment but I can give you a bit of info and then he can refine when he gets back. Last year two union soldiers, that were found by the park in 1999 at Corinth, were reinterred in their original resting place at Battery Robinett. Several years (1970's?) ago two Confederate soldiers were found in the woods at Shiloh and reintered by one of the Confederate burial trenches at Shiloh with a seperate marker. I will let Tom know so he can fill in the details a bit. Nita
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| Posted: Tue Jul 29th, 2008 02:43 pm |
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Ed, Browner is right, as always.  If a soldier is found on the Shiloh field he will be reinterred. If evidence proves he is a Union soldier he will go to the National Cametery. If he is Confederate..well there would be certainly be some discussion about where he would moved to but I would expect it would be in the vicinity of Burial Trench No.3 which is tour stop 5 on the park tour. In the 1960's two Confederates were found just outside the park boundary and this is where they were laid to rest. The two Union soldiers that were found near Battery Robinett, though initially removed, were replaced in their original graves, as this site has been a designated burial site since Col. William Rogers of the 2nd Texas was buried there on October 5, 1862. Tom
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| Posted: Tue Jul 29th, 2008 03:40 pm |
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wow... canon firing. Awesome! I wish I had my own napolean smoothbore (or even a Parrot rifle). lot's of smoke and lots of noise. The kid in me loves this sort of thing. It would be a different story if I had to charge a battery that was firing cannister... that wouldn't be much fun. My friend and I are convinced that federal troops did not transport the dead in the vicinty of the bloody pond/ hornets nest any great distance. We believe, geofiz evidence notwithstahnding, that they must have buried the dead nearby. Of course, we don't claim to be experts on much of anything. So, we could be all washed up. In anycase, it will be fun to walk around and imagine what occured.
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| Posted: Tue Jul 29th, 2008 04:55 pm |
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browner nitap
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hi Ed. Not sure about the Confederates found in the 1960's, but the Union ones found at Corinth in 1999 were removed before the upcoming construction of the new center. A special ceremony was conducted for their reinterment last May, and they were replaced exactly where they were found. Nita
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| Posted: Tue Jul 29th, 2008 05:44 pm |
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browner nitap
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your very welcome Ed. I am glad they did it that way too. As part of the ceremony, they did Echo taps with 30 bugle players starting from the gravesites and spaced out through the town, to the National Cemetary as a way of " re-uniting" them with their comrades. I thought that was very moving. Nita
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