Shiloh Trip

[Aragorn243]

It's been one of my goals for decades to visit the Shiloh battlefield. I've grown up around Gettysburg and go there several times a year as an adult.

Finally made it this week. It's incredible. My goal was to photograph all the monuments and markers but it's apparent that isn't going to happen in a weeks time. I'm having a blast however.

Some curious findings. The cannons out here are nearly all marked on the trunions. In the east, only Confederate guns are marked on the trunions. Union guns are marked on the muzzles. So they evidently had a different supplier of cannons out here.

This park is very quiet compared to Gettysburg. Probably due to the smaller population base nearby. Lateness of the season could be another factor but I can walk around without running into anyone else here for an hour.

I am somewhat disappointed that many of the markers have been left in disrepair. And finding them has been challenging. Trails have been left to grow over and disappear. Yesterday I was able to use my Pokemon game to locate them in the woods as someone had made pokestops out of them but today, no such luck. Came down to map reading and using the topography to find them. Just glad I have one of the old maps because they don't sell them anymore.

I'm getting my exercise for hunting season at least.

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[ssgross]

Yesterday I was able to use my Pokemon game to locate them in the woods as someone had made pokestops out of them but today, no such luck.

Be very careful with Pokemon Aragorn.

[Aragorn243]

Pokemon failed more than succeeded today. But seriously, it does have it's uses beyond just a game. I again was in areas that no one created the stops and in two instances the GPS coordinates were 75 yards off the actual location.

I'm getting pretty good at locating them just by the map and am ignoring the trails to save time going cross country. But two still came up AWOL I'm pretty sure they are not longer there. Gettysburg is missing a few also so nothing unusual there. One was even pokestopped. The other was not.

[Aragorn243]

My quest is over except for sorting the photos. Four days, 44 miles of walking, 2480 photos.

[browningautorifle]

I missed my chance at seeing all that area back in the '90s when I was posted out to the east coast. Couldn't get my family to go see things so... Should have gone myself.

[Aragorn243]

Home again. My first vacation in memory. Longest also at 10 days, two and a half were travel. I have a lot of sorting to do. Went to Nashville for two days, toured some of the sights there. I have photos of a couple of Lemat Revolvers and Sgt York's equipment and a German handgun he captured and brought home. A little Mauser, not a Luger. Had a lot of fun. Hard getting back to work.