Shiloh Photo Album
First Engagement at Shiloh

Union private Prosper Johnson, 32nd Illinois Infantry, was wounded during the first engagement on the Shiloh Battlefield, March 1, 1862. Click here for details courtesy of Prosper's great-great grandson, Rod Guthrie.
 

Bluff near National Cemetery. Site of first engagement on the Shiloh Battlefield between a Confederate battery and the gunboats, Tyler and Lexington occurring March 1, 1862. Photo courtesy of Glenn C. Bandy

  

Prosper (left) with his commanding officer toward the end of the war
Courtesy of Rod Guthrie
  
Official War Department document in reference to Prosper's pension application
Courtesy of Rod Guthrie

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