Battle of Shiloh
Pittsburg Landing, Tennessee
April 6-7, 1862
Pittsburg Landing
The National Cemetery, facing NNE at Union Headquarters Monument (1)
(Union Headquarters Monument 1, Trailhead Graphics, Inc. Map)
HeadquartersGeneral U. S. GrantNight of April 6, 1862General Grant in his Memoirs says: "During the night rain fell in torrents and our troops were exposed without shelter. I made my headquarters under a tree a few hundred yards back from the river bank."The large oak tree referred to, standing where this marker now stands, was destroyed by cyclone October 14, 1909. |
