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                                            Shiloh
                 Sacred Ground

                SHILOH, A REQUIEM
                by Herman Melville

April, 1862

Skimming lightly, wheeling still,
      The swallows fly low

Over the fields in cloudy days,
      The forest-field of Shiloh--
Over the field where April rain
Solaced the parched one stretched in pain
Through the pause of night
That followed the Sunday fight
      Around the church of Shiloh--
The church, so lone, the log-built one,
That echoed to many a parting groan
             And natural prayer
      Of dying foeman mingled there--
Foeman at morn, but friends at eve--
      Fame or country least their care:
(What like a bullet can undeceive!)
      But now they lie low,
While over them the swallows skim,
      And all is hushed at Shiloh.

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                                                                The Drummer Boy

Several people have asked me to name the photographs on this page. So I will do so now.
1. Army of the Ohio Gun Battery
2. Washington's Battery (Confederate)
3. Old Glory over Shiloh main entrance to the park
4. Confederate Buriel Trench. Over 700 brave Southern soldiers are buried here
there are 3 more buriel treches located in the park. The Federals were buried in the national Cemetery in indivial graves.
5. The Confederate Monument. Dedicated to all the South's brave men who fought and died on this bloody battlefield.

The Lost Generation
Drummer boys
The song playing is Shiloh's Hill also Known as The Battle of Shiloh written in 1862.