Jim,

I'd like to jump in here and relate an incident that happened in the late 1970's or early 80's. Bill Gurley can probably give you a more accurate account.

The father and son relic hunting team of Tom and Dean Sprowl discovered the remains of two Louisiana soldiers burried in a shallow grave near Winningham Branch. They were off the park on private property. The men had been burried in their uniforms with their weapons.

Tom and Dean carefully recovered all the bones and then took steps through local officials to have them reinterred in the National Cemetary. Park Officials at Shiloh refused their request.

To make a long story short, after a prolonged battle involving federal congressional and senate members a compromise was reached. Park officials allowed the remains to be burried on the Park with full military honors but not in the National Cemetary. A small brass marker was also placed at the site of the original burial.