150 years ago today was the eve of Shiloh. The next day, April 6, 1862 and the day that followed will long be remembered.
Of course I see it from a personal level.
When it was over, Sgt. J. D. Pearce of the 8th Arkansas, who was my gg grandfather,was wounded-"the bullet having passed through and through" and he bathed his wounds at the Bloody Pond, I think it was called.
Pearce was picked up by his brother and went home to Mifflin, Tennessee and his dad's home. Pearce healed and caught up with the 8th sometimes in July. Jerry Pearce was one of 78 out of something like 1000 men that survived to return home to Arkansas.
Pearce's first cousin died there and is buried in a common grave with many other good CSA men.
James Thomas Harper, my great grandfather, of the 5th Tennessee was wounded in the knee and kept that "bad leg" for the rest of his life. Harper who is listed as killed in a site in Tennessee, actually survived, was later wounded at Atlanta too.
Owen Guthrie, my ggg grandmother Price's baby brother, of the 10th Arkansas was mortally wounded and evacuated along with all the others
with his exact date of death and burial place known only to God. So young and so sad.
A very sad time in our nation's history, but true still.
Proud to be a descendant of some of the survivors of the Battle of Shiloh.