Savannah (Tennessee)

On April 6-7, 1862, Confederate and Union forces converged on this site along the Tennessee River near the Pittsburg Landing and Shiloh Church to engage in a long drawn-out battle that would end up being the deadliest up to that point in the war between the North and the South (~23,000 casualties, to be surpassed by the Battle of Gettysburg a year later). But of significance to this conflict was that Ulysses Grant's victory here paved the way for the Union to make an incursion into the Mississippi Valley that would end with a victory at the Battle of Vicksburg and essentially a mortal wound to the Confederacy. Also at this battle, the able Southern General Albert Sidney Johnston was killed, causing Confederate President Jefferson Davis to lament that it "was the turning point of our fate." Highlights of the park include:.

Covers distant and more recent history of the area, nicely presented.

A Georgian-style mansion Where Ulysses S. Grant stayed just prior to the Battle of Shiloh. Interestingly, family members from Africa related to Alex Haley of Roots fame also worked here for a time.