All of the Confederate dead are buried on the battlefield in five large
trenches. In this, the largest, there are, reportedly, 721 bodies,
stacked seven deep.
[Illustration: _New Shiloh Church, stands on the site of the
original church._]
The day after the battle, General Beauregard dispatched a message to
General Grant asking for permission to send a mounted party to the
battlefield to bury his dead. In answer, Grant said: “Owing to the
warmth of the weather I deemed it advisable to have all the dead of both
parties buried immediately ... now it is accomplished.”
The Confederates and Federals were buried alike in separate trenches on
the field. Four years after the battle the Union dead were removed to
the newly established national cemetery. The Confederates still rest in
the trenches where they were buried by the Federal troops.