Where the material comes from

What the reconstruction can't claim

These are the limits of the animated movement: the Simulation and the troop-movement layer over Explore the Field. They are restated on the simulation's own briefing, and they are the same list, read from the same place.

Where the sources disagree

Shiloh has genuine disputes, and this map had to choose in order to draw anything at all. Every place it chose is listed here with what each source actually says, which reading is on screen, and why. Where a dispute does not change what is drawn, it is not listed — it is recorded in the project's own notes.

How a claim is labelled

Three words do a lot of work across this site, and they are not interchangeable.

Documented

Stated in a source named here: an Official Records report, an NPS tablet, a published history. The claim can be checked.

Interpolated

Derived from documented facts rather than stated by one. A position between two recorded positions, a time between two recorded times, a photograph's proximity to a landmark. Reasonable, and not a record.

Unverifiable

Asserted somewhere, but not by anything that can be checked. Where a claim of this kind matters it is attributed and flagged; where it does not, it is left out rather than smoothed in.

Where historians genuinely disagree (whether Grant was surprised, how much the Sunken Road decided, what Johnston's death cost the attack), the dispute is surfaced where it arises rather than settled on your behalf.

Read further

The park, the preservation trust, the marker archive, the reports themselves, and the two standard modern histories.

Using this at the park, with no signal

Coverage on the battlefield is poor, so this page is built to keep working without it.

Once it has loaded, it stays on your device: every marker and its tablet text, the order of battle, the articles, the search and the simulation all run with no connection. Map imagery is the exception — the tile providers do not permit it to be downloaded ahead of time, so only the ground you have already looked at is stored. Panning around the park while you still have a signal is the way to bring it with you. Photographs need a connection.

Found a mistake?

This map is compiled from tablets, the Official Records and published histories, and it is not infallible. A marker in the wrong place, a misattributed unit, a mistake in an inscription: corrections are welcome.