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After the battle, Federal soldiers buried the dead from both sides where they fell. Congress established Shiloh National Cemetery in 1866 for the permanent burial of US military personnel killed at Shiloh as well as those who died at other locations on the Lower Tennessee River. Bodies of Federal soldiers from 565 locations were recovered and reburied here. Later, when Congress established the national park in 1894, it created a commission of Union and Confederate Shiloh veterans to record and preserve the history of the battle on the actual landscape it occurred. The commission decided to preserve and honor the historic graves of the Confederate dead in place on the battlefield. As stewards of the park, the National Park Service preserves the commission's decision, continuing to protect and honor the burial sites of Shiloh's Confederate dead on the battlefield.
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Shiloh, Tennessee · United States
