We don’t think of mass graves as being a part of American history, but at the Shiloh Civil War Battlefield in Tennessee there are several. In most cases, especially in the case of the Union dead, hastily-buried bodies were later disinterred and individually reburied, but these boys weren’t even that lucky.

A confederate mass grave at the Shiloh Civil War Battlefield in West Tennessee
Confederate Mass Grave
© 1996 Warren Farr
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