Excerpt from Illinois at Shiloh: Report of the Shiloh Battlefield Commission and Ceremonies at the Dedication of the Monuments Erected to Mark the Positions of the Illinois Commands Engaged in the Battle In a queer old sleepy town named Corinth, situated in the northern part of the state of Mississippi, not far from the Tennessee line and twenty-two miles from the Ten nesse river, was a little plot of ground. It did not differ in appearance from any other plot of ground in the vicin ity and was not over five feet square, yet it was for the possession of this little piece of soil that twenty thousand men were killed and wounded in one of the most desper ate battles in all history. The reason that these few feet of ground was sought for at such awful cost was that it was enclosed like this by iron rails. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.