One of the bloodiest battles of the Civil War was fought between Union and Confederate troops in Southwest Tennessee.
Nearly 24,000 soldiers died in the Battle of Shiloh, near Tennessee’s border with Mississippi, in 1862.
Today, the battlefield is preserved at Shiloh National Military Park.
Dr. Timothy Smith is a former National Park Service ranger at Shiloh who now teaches history at the University of Tennessee at Martin.
He is the first speaker in this fall’s Rita Vital Memorial Moccasin Bend Fall Lecture Series here in Chattanooga - presented by National Park Partners - on Monday, September 16th at the Tennessee Aquarium’s River Journey Auditorium, starting at 7 PM.
I spoke with Dr. Smith - and Tricia King Mims, executive director of National Park Partners.
