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On my recent trip to Shiloh at the conclusion of our tour with the esteemed Tim Smith, three of us traipsed some portions of the battlefield to locate the United States Regular monuments. Beyond my obvious predilection for all units Ohio, I also have a place for the small groups of Regulars that graced the western armies. At Shiloh there are units from all three branches on the field.
To locate the U.S. cavalry monument, we parked at a pull off near the park's main entrance and crossed over the highway into some high and very wet grass. After walking a few hundred yards in tick country, we located the encampment tablet and the monument, buried in the woods a bit, for Company C, 2nd Cavalry and Company I, 4th Cavalry. The monument is impressive, and obviously not visited often.
We walked back to the car and drove to Duncan Field. The infantry monument is in the north woods line at Duncan. It is of the same style as the cavalry monument, and denotes the actions of the 15th, 16th, and 19th Infantry Regiments. As these units were part of the Army of the Ohio, there are no encampment tablets.
We then drove over to north of the bloody pond to locate the artillery monument. Battery H, 5th Artillery, and Batteries H & M, 4th Artillery, are represented on this monument. The monument is once again is the same style as the previous two.
My next trip will hopefully capture pictures of these monuments on a sunny day, as well as the engagement tablets for these units.
For more information on the U.S. Regular infantry in the Western Theater, Mark Johnson's
That Body of Brave Men: The U.S. Regular Infantry and the Civil War in the West is a detailed study with several pages on the Regular's involvement at Shiloh.
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| Rear - Cavalry |
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| Front - Infantry |
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| Front - Artillery |
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