Shiloh National Military Park preserves the American Civil War Shiloh and Corinth battlefields. The Battle of Shiloh was one of the first major battles in the Western Theater of the American Civil War, fought over April 6th and 7th, 1862. The engagement resulted in sround 24,000 killed, wounded, and missing. The Shiloh National Military Park was established on December 27th, 1894.

In the months following the bloody conflict, accounts surfaced of a phantom battle being seen in the area. Since then, re-enactors and witnesses have reported: the sounds of screams and moans coming from the area known as the "Hornet's Nest"; phantom cavalrymen wandering the fields; around the area of the "Blody Pond", people have become overwhelmed with feelings of sickness, whereas others report blood oozing from the earth; at Shiloh Church, the sounds of a wagon approaching have been heard.

Pictured left is the Sunken Road and rail fence at Shiloh National Military Park courtesy of David Whelan.