Day 1 - Sunday, April 6, 1862
The locations/events listed below are just the first phase of our "Full Tour". When completed, it will include complete coverage of the battlefield of Shiloh and all its position markers.
The campaign and battle of Shiloh are the hardest of all the campaigns and battles of the Civil War for the student to solve--to sift the truth from; the hardest of them all in which to place the little credit that can be found in the generalship on either side upon the proper commanders; the hardest of them all in which to fix the blame for mistakes. It is not hard for the student to find abundant faults; it is only hard for him to fix the responsibility for them. And this all arises from the fact that the generals on each side have fought more bitterly with the pen, among themselves, since the great battle, than they fought, side by side, against their common foe, during the battle. Grant and Buell have contradicted each other in essential particulars on one side; on the other Beauregard and the friends of Johnston have carried on a bitter controversy. About all the student can do is to follow the actual operations as nearly as possible and determine for himself wherein they were right and wherein they were wrong, without trying to place credit or blame upon individuals.
(Text From: "Shiloh", American Campaigns, Matthew Forney Steele. 1909)