150th Battle of Shiloh / March 29th thru April 1, 2012
A Blue Gray Alliance / Cleburns Division Event
Registration Deadline is March 12, 2012 $20.00 per person http://www.cleburnes-division.com/registration.aspx?EventID=7 Unit Name: 3rd. Missouri Infantry Affiliation: 1st Missouri Battalion Registration Check in at Event 1150 Hwy 22Shiloh, TN 38376 |  |
All 3rd. Missouri Infantry members must register for this event individually through the Cleburnes Division website or through mail as directed on the Clebburnes Division website. This registration is the same as was done for Wilson's Creek in 2011. You must register by deadline date of March 12, 2012 to attend and cost is $20.00 per person. You will register with a unit name of 3rd. Missouri Infantry and select your affiliation from the drop down box as 1st Missouri Battalion. We are apart of Huckabee's 3rd. Division for this event. Please contact Capt. Shuster with registration questions.
Battle of Shiloh Event Schduale Thursday, March 29th @ 5pm: Column will leave for overnight stay on Fallen Timbers Battlefield Friday, March 30th @ sunrise - noon: Non-spectator Battles for all campaigners ( Fallen Timbers Battle ) Saturday, March 31st @ sunrise: Non-spectator Battle ( Shiloh Church Battle ) 2 hours Saturday, March 31st @ 2pm: Spectator Battle ( Hornets Nest/Peach Orchard/Blody Pond/Ruggles Line ) Sunday, April 1st @ 2pm: Spectator Battle ( Willow Oaks Pond - US counter attack & CS retreat ) Non - Campaigners * All military members are asked to be on site by Friday night March 30th for the start of Battles early Sat. morning * We will set up a static camp for the 3rd. MO Inf. as apart of the 1st MO Battlaion. Pack Light !!!! * All miltary members are asked to have 300 rounds rolled and ready for battles starting early Saturday morning. * TBD if we will be cooking as a group or as individuals at this event | Campaigners Only This event will begin it's formation on Wednesday March 28, 2012, at the Corinth Interpretive Center lower landing at noon CST. This day will be used as time for preperation and orgainzation and check-in. I will be on site then and have an area designated and under guard for anyone who wants to participate to leave their gear and make arrangements to get their vehicles to the re-enactor parking at the 150th re-enactment they have chosen to attend. The Confederate advance will begin on Thursday morning at 8 am CST. There will be no campfires or hay at the Corinth gathering site. We will be sleeping on arms. This is just a staging area so plan accordingly. Check in will close at 6:30 am on Thursday morning. At 7 am Thursday morning, a breakfast with the townfolks of Corinth will begin. This will be free to all registered participants, as well as marching rations, both compliments of the Corinth Tourism bureau. As of right now these rations will include cooked bacon, biscuits, cornbread and an ear of corn. The route will be over the Ridge Road taken by Hardee's Corp out of Corinth. Some of it is over the original route. Part of it will have to be on pavement to get us out of Corinth and again when terrain requires it. The other times it will be on the side of the road and through fields. It is not a high traffic route. It is country lanes through farm country. Just like back then. The plan is to cover all but 8 or 9 miles the first day. Which is Thursday. We will camp and sleep on arms approximately 9 miles from Shiloh Park. Starting on Friday morning at 7am should put us arriving at 1 of 3 stopping points around 11:30 am on Friday. At each of these stopping points, parts of the column will fall out in order to organize other activities of different types. Depending on where you park your vehicle, you are free to fall out at any of these points. Some men will be joining us at these points to be a part of the march. The march will conclude at an area close to where Patrick Cleburnes Brigade slept on arms on the night before the battle at around 2 pm on Friday afternoon. This is 1/4 mile west of Hwy 22. We will have a moment of silence then everyone can just fade away as this will conclude the campaign side of the event. Rules and guidelines: Men only. No sky blue federal pants. Early war confederate uniforms or civilian frocks. No modern clothing will be allowed. Properly made and researched reproduction flags of any unit that participated in the battle of Shiloh will be allowed to again be unfurled and make the trip again. No store bought printed or unresearched flags will be allowed. Local law enforcement will be onsite and along with us along the way to keep order and any unwanted / un-welcomed individuals away. Please no parts of dead animals other than a small feather, and I repeat small feather, should be worn on any part of the uniform. |
3rd. Missouri Infantry / Bowen's Missouri Brigade / Uniform Guidelines Battle of Shiloh April 6-7, 1862 TBA Battle of Shiloh April 6-7, 1862 The Battle of Shiloh, also known as the Battle of Pittsburg Landing, was a major battle in the Western Theater of the American Civil War, fought April 6–7, 1862, in southwestern Tennessee. A Union army under Maj. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant had moved via the Tennessee River deep into Tennessee and was encamped principally at Pittsburg Landing on the west bank of the river. Confederate forces under Generals Albert Sidney Johnston and P. G. T. Beauregard launched a surprise attack on Grant there. The Confederates achieved considerable success on the first day, but were ultimately defeated on the second day. On the first day of the battle, the Confederates struck with the intention of driving the Union defenders away from the river and into the swamps of Owl Creek to the west, hoping to defeat Grant's Army of the Tennessee before the anticipated arrival of Maj. Gen. Don Carlos Buell's Army of the Ohio. The Confederate battle lines became confused during the fierce fighting, and Grant's men instead fell back to the northeast, in the direction of Pittsburg Landing. A position on a slightly sunken road, nicknamed the "Hornet's Nest", defended by the men of Brig. Gens. Benjamin M. Prentiss's and W. H. L. Wallace's divisions, provided critical time for the rest of the Union line to stabilize under the protection of numerous artillery batteries. Gen. Johnston was killed during the first day of fighting, and Beauregard, his second in command, decided against assaulting the final Union position that night. Reinforcements from Gen. Buell and from Grant's own army arrived in the evening and turned the tide the next morning, when the Union commanders launched a counterattack along the entire line. The Confederates were forced to retreat from the bloodiest battle in United States history up to that time, ending their hopes that they could block the Union advance into northern Mississippi. Confederate Commanders - Shiloh April 6-7, 1862 Battlefield Maps of Shiloh April 6-7, 1862 |
