On April 6, 1862, General Albert Sidney Johnston surprised Major General Ulysses S. Grant’s outnumbered forces near Shiloh Church and pushed them north, but Grant held his supply base at Pittsburg Landing. Grant’s reinforcements arrived, enabling him to surprise General P. G. T. Beauregard, in command after Johnston was mortally wounded, with a counterattack the next morning. The Confederates retreated toward Corinth. The casualties in the two-day battle totaled 23,746.
The Conservation Fund negotiated the purchase of the 125-acre Glover farm, a high point of the Confederate advance. Major grants from the Fund's partners, The Gilder Foundation, Mr. and Mrs. John L. Nau, III and the Civil War Society, made possible the purchase and donation of the historic land to the park.
Resourceful Communities and Family Farms
In North Carolina, farm families such as Mary and Nelson James have joined with the Fund's Resourceful Communities Program to cherish traditions, save farmland and sustain their community for future generations.
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