Shiloh in Hardin County, Tennessee — The American South (East South Central)
Battle Returns to Duncan's Farm
Shiloh National Military Park
Photographed by Bernard Fisher, October 13, 2021
1. Battle Returns to Duncan's Farm Marker
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Battle Returns to Duncan's Farm. . Early on the second day of battle, Confederate gains of the first day were reversed and fighting again consumed Joseph Duncan's farm. While General Ulysses S. Grant's Union army attacked the Confederate left, General Don Carlos Buell's Union army attacked the Confederate right and center (here). General Pierre G.T. Beauregard, who assumed command upon the death of General Albert Sidney Johnston the previous afternoon, hastily reorganized his Confederate forces to resist the Union counterattack. Bitter fighting raged here for three hours until Beauregard's left collapsed, forced back to Shiloh Church. In their wake, Buell's troops here attacked west along the Corinth Road., It was load and shoot all the time. Fellows fell on all sides of me...I remember the Colonel with his wounded arm pointing to the front...and the feeling that I was about to fire my last when, suddenly...I felt as if a hot cannon ball had struck me on the head, and remember nothing more as I must have fainted that very moment. , Private Conrad W. Chapman , Co. D, 3rd Kentucky Infantry, Henry Lovie sketched the battle in the thick of the action. His sketches appeared in publications of the time such as Leslie's Illustrated News., 1 . Buell's Union center attacks the Confederate center under Breckinridge and Polk. , 2 . Confederates retire their lines from Duncan's farm southward after 11:00 am.
Early on the second day of battle, Confederate gains of the first day were reversed and fighting again consumed Joseph Duncan's farm. While General Ulysses S. Grant's Union army attacked the Confederate left, General Don Carlos Buell's Union army attacked the Confederate right and center (here). General Pierre G.T. Beauregard, who assumed command upon the death of General Albert Sidney Johnston the previous afternoon, hastily reorganized his Confederate forces to resist the Union counterattack. Bitter fighting raged here for three hours until Beauregard's left collapsed, forced back to Shiloh Church. In their wake, Buell's troops here attacked west along the Corinth Road.
It was load and shoot all the time. Fellows fell on all sides of me...I remember the Colonel with his wounded arm pointing to the front...and the feeling that I was about to fire my last when, suddenly...I felt as if a hot cannon ball had struck me on the head,
and remember nothing more as I must have fainted that very moment.
Private Conrad W. Chapman
Co. D, 3rd Kentucky Infantry
Henry Lovie sketched the battle in the thick of the action. His sketches appeared in publications of the time such as Leslie's Illustrated News.
1 Buell's Union center attacks the Confederate center under Breckinridge and Polk.
2 Confederates retire their lines from Duncan's farm southward after 11:00 am.
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Park Service, U.S. Department of the Interior. (Marker Number Stop 3.)
Topics. This historical marker is listed in this topic list: War, US Civil. A significant historical date for this entry is April 7, 1862.
Location. 35° 8.291′ N, 88° 20.41′ W. Marker is in Shiloh, Tennessee, in Hardin County. It is on Confederate Road east of Eastern Corinth Road, on the left when traveling east. Touch for map. Marker is in this post office area: Shiloh TN 38376, United States of America. Touch for directions.
Regionally, this marker is in West Tennessee. It is also in the American South and specifically in the Upper South. Globally, it is in North America, the Western Hemisphere, the Western World, and the Anglosphere. Historically, it finds itself in what was once the territory of the Mississippian Culture, one of the Confederate States of America, and the Antebellum South.
Credits. This page was last revised on October 17, 2021. It was originally submitted on October 17, 2021, by Bernard Fisher of Richmond, Virginia. This page has been viewed 386 times since then and 13 times this year. Photos:1, 2. submitted on October 17, 2021, by Bernard Fisher of Richmond, Virginia.
