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Artifacts Eleven
In addition to being the scene of one of
the bloodiest battles of the War Between the States, Shiloh National
Military park is also home to the remains of a 1,500 year old Mississippian
Village.
Shiloh Effegy Pipe - Excavated in 1898 from Shiloh Mounds.
Courtesy Tennessee River Museum - Savannah,
Tennessee
Louis Napolean Nelson of General Nathan B.
Forrest's 7th Tennessee Cavalry fought at the Battles of Shiloh,
Chickamauga, and Brices Crossroads. He returned to Ripley, Tennessee
after the war and received a Confederate pension until his death.
He was buried with full Confederate honors.
Paris, Tennessee native William H. Jackson's skill as a swordsman
earned him an appointment to the United States Military Academy
at West Point. He was commissioned in 1856 and earned a name for
himself in the Apache wars. Jackson resigned his commission in 1861
to join the Confederate Army of Tennessee where he rose to the rank
of Brigadier General.
Courtesy of the United States Military Academy
Archives
After the Pacific Battle of Los Negros Island,
(March 4, 1944) General Douglas MacArthur posthumously awarded Sevier
County native Sgt. Troy McGill the Congressional Medal of Honor.
For close to 6 hours, McGill desperately fought alone in mostly
hand to hand combat. Army officials credited McGill with over 105
enemy kills.
Bertie McGill Fowler, sister of Sgt. Troy McGill, receiving Congressional
Medal of Honor at Fort Sill, Oklahoma 1944.
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