Shiloh - Fallen Timbers

• Target Property at Fallen Timbers

  

  The Civil War Trust is currently working to save this 267-acre tract at Fallen Timbers, the site of the closing action of the Battle of Shiloh.

  David Duncan

• Satellite Image: Target Property at Fallen Timbers

  

  This overhead view shows the 267-acre portion of the Fallen Timbers battlefield that the Trust is working to save.

  Google Earth

• Satellite Image: Fallen Timbers and Shiloh

  

  Google earth image showing the Fallen Timbers battlefield in relation to the Shiloh National Military Park

  Google Earth

• Two Legends Meet

  

  At Fallen Timbers two legendary Civil War figures, Nathan Bedford Forrest and William Tecumseh Sherman, met on the field of battle for the first time. After the war Sherman remarked that had Forrest "not emptied his pistols...my career would have ended right there."

  Library of Congress

• Confederates' View

  

  From this vantage point, Confederates watched Sherman's troops advance toward the field hospital at Fallen Timbers. The aggressive action by Forrest's cavalry scattered the Federal reconnaissance and persuaded Sherman to fall back to Pittsburg Landing, allowing the Confederates to escape.

  David Duncan

• Sherman's View

  

  Sherman's skirmishers advanced across this field toward the Confederate hospital, located on the high ground in the distance.

  David Duncan

• Brief but Furious Close to Shiloh

  

  This Civil War Trails sign describes the intense struggle at Fallen Timbers -- the final action of the Battle of Shiloh.

  David Duncan

• Confederate Hospital Site

  

  The objective of Sherman's advance was a Confederate field hospital located at Fallen Timbers. Though the exact location of this hospital is not known today, historians believe that it was near, or quite possibly on, the Trust's target property.

  David Duncan

• Forrest's Wounding Site

  

  At the height of the action, Forrest's trademark impetuosity landed him in the thick of the Yankee skirmish line, where he was wounded and nearly captured. NPS historian Stacy Allen points toward the approximate site of Forrest's wounding.

  David Duncan

• The Devil at Fallen Timbers

  

  This modern painting depicts Nathan Bedford Forrest nearly surrounded by Federal skirmishers during the action at Fallen Timbers

  Painting by Dan Nance / www.dannance.com

• Contemplating Fallen Timbers

  

  Chief ranger of the Shiloh National Military Park Stacy Allen contemplates the engagement at Fallen Timbers and its consequences.

  David Duncan