Shiloh National Cemetery

GPS Coordinates: 35.150585, -88.319323
County: Hardin
Record count: 1,516

Ownership: National Park Service, U.S. Department of the Interior

Directions: Located along the west bank of the Tennessee River, about 4.5 miles from Shiloh, TN, at the end of Pittsburg Landing Rd.

Background: In 1866, the War Department established a cemetery on the battlefield of Shiloh. In order to bury the dead not only from the April 6-7, 1862, battle of Shiloh but also from all the operations along the Tennessee River, workers began building the “Pittsburg Landing National Cemetery.” Changed to “Shiloh National Cemetery” in 1889, the cemetery holds 3,584 Civil War dead, 2,359 of them unknown. In the fall of 1866, workers disinterred the dead from 156 locations on the battlefield, and 565 different locations along the Tennessee River. Headboards of wood first marked each grave, but were replaced in 1876 and 1877 by granite stones. Tall stones marked the known dead and square, short stones denoted unknown soldiers.

Burial Records

• View All Transcriptions Combined, 1,516 records
  • National Park Service Records, by Interment.net, September 17, 2025, (1,479 records)
  • Veterans Affairs Database, by Interment.net, April 17, 2025, (37 records)

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