The Battle of Shiloh and the Bloody Pond

The Battle of Shiloh and The Bloody Pond

During the U.S. Civil War, in April of 1862, Shiloh was the site of a ferocious battle that began a six-month contest for control of an important railroad juncture. Thousands of Union and Confederate soldiers were killed in the two-day engagement, many of whom found respite around a small pond near the front before expiring. Standing at the edge of the so-called “Bloody Pond,” Don learned of a humanitarian station that had been arranged there to treat the wounded, regardless of their allegiance. This was an embodiment of the IHL principles of humanity, impartiality and neutrality. –IHL Civil War Project Description

Resources:

The Battle of Shiloh

by U. S. Grant

From The Century Magazine,

Vol. XXIX, Feb., 1885

http://www.researchonline.net/battles/shiloh/the_battle_of_shiloh.pdf

“Shiloh: The Battle That Changed the Civil War”By Larry J. Daniel

(Electronic copy of the book)

http://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=dSYuNXmZjFwC&oi=fnd&pg=PA12&dq=battle+of+shiloh&ots=-wtOtcWMpq&sig=YUqDguIOM_5xZwv0DX-Q6MqHudo#v=onepage&q&f=false

“The Battle of Shiloh: Surprise Attack!” By Larry Hama

(Electronic copy of the book – “Kids” book with lots of graphics)

http://books.google.com/books?id=COnsA8c4uAUC&printsec=frontcover&dq=in+the+ranks+of+shiloh&source=gbs_similarbooks_s&cad=1#v=onepage&q&f=false

Shiloh – National Park Service

http://www.nps.gov/shil/index.htm

“Battle of Shiloh: Shattering Myths” (Historynet.com)

http://www.historynet.com/battle-of-shiloh-shattering-myths.htm

“The Untold Story of Shiloh: The Battle and the Battlefield” –Timothy B. Smith (Electronic copy of book)

http://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=S2aJif9Ei9oC&oi=fnd&pg=PR9&dq=the+bloody+pond,+shiloh&ots=nxI3ZCx_bl&sig=2HKGeGbuSfLH7ujhIV458jJ8hm4#v=onepage&q=the%20bloody%20pond&f=false

note: brief discussion regarding the debatable myth of the bloody pond

Pictures/Maps:

Maps of Shiloh, Tennessee (1862)

Battle of Shiloh – Day One, April 6, 1862

(Civil War Preservation Trust)

http://www.civilwar.org/battlefields/shiloh/maps/shilohmap.html

Maps of Shiloh, Tennessee (1862)

Map of the Battlefield of Shiloh, April 6 & 7, 1862

http://www.civilwar.org/battlefields/shiloh/maps/shilohfremauxmap.html

Shiloh Battle Field –Gallery of Pictures

(Civil War Preservation Trust)

http://www.flickr.com/photos/cwpt/sets/72157604141914557/

For more…Search “Shiloh” and select “Gallery view”

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/index.html

Specific to The Bloody Pond:

The Bloody Pond –Pictures/Maps/Brief Description

(Historic Marker Database)

http://www.hmdb.org/marker.asp?marker=21317

Map of Shiloh National Park – Marks location of the Bloody Pond

http://www.nps.gov/history/history/online_books/hh/10/images/hh10f1.jpg

Eyewitness Accounts:

“What I Saw at Shiloh” – Ambrose Bierce

http://www.civilwarhome.com/shilohbierce.htm

“The Battle of Shiloh” – Colonel Wills De Hass

http://www.civilwarhome.com/shilohbierce.htm

“The Battle of Shiloh, 1862”

Eyewitness account: Henry Morton Stanley

http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/shiloh.htm

Poems:

“Shiloh” – Herman Melville

http://www.loc.gov/rr/program/bib/lcpoetry/cwvc.html

“Shiloh: The Bloody Pond”

At Shiloh, Tennessee, a finite number

Of days after the first day’s bloody fighting,

To be exact, thirty-six thousand, nine hundred

And forty-nine, two, three, or four generations

As parents and children go, I mourned the dead

And the unsown seed of those who left no orphans,

And mystically felt, in a time foreshortened

By the triangular presence in the Park

Of a National Cemetery, of covered trenches

For Southern dead, and of Indian burial mounds

From a million days before our Union shivered,

That if I knelt and drank from the Bloody Pond

I would taste the intermingled corpuscles

Of the thirsting Federal and Confederate dead.

-Thomas Bacon Whitbread-

http://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=YF2IXdzCX5oC&oi=fnd&pg=PA7&dq=the+bloody+pond,+shiloh&ots=KcQQ9BTBfC&sig=reE19cg-bZajq4Bn9uwNHmJGoxI#v=onepage&q=the%20bloody%20pond%2C%20shiloh&f=false (page 67)