Shiloh National Military Park to mark 129th birthday

SHILOH, Tenn. — Shiloh National Military Park’s birthday is coming up!

Everyone is invited to come out on Wednesday, December 27 to mark the park’s 129th anniversary of President Grover Cleveland signed into law, the legislation creating Shiloh National Military Park.

The news release says that the event will begin at 2 p.m. in the Shiloh Battlefield visitor center auditorium.

There will be a presentation on the national military park movement in the 1890s, cake, along with an entire park that is free and open to explore.

The release says Shiloh National Military Park was established on December 27, 1894, and that veterans of the Battle of Shiloh, both North and South, reunited to establish a lasting memorial to their role in history.

The release says that Shiloh was one of the first five Civil War battlefields preserved as national military parks, along with Chickamauga, Antietam, Gettysburg, and Vicksburg.

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