you see this at vicksburg, at chickamauga, gettysburg, and antietam as well. the later generation of parks created in the 1920s 1930s, 1940s you can't pinpoint to any degree of accuracy that you can at these earlier battlefields. so this was the golden age of shiloh, when this battlefield was established. it's part of a larger movement, but it's a key feature of our favorite battlefield here. now, there are later preservation efforts at shiloh, of course. we know about some of the major reconstruction that's done during the new deal, for instance, when the concrete roads go in, the visitor center that we visit today goes up at that time, the bookstore that's there now goes up at that time. later on, mission 66, park service term, will create the bypass out there and do some additional things, add on to the visitor center and then, of course, there are later acquisitions. really we get into more in terms of the preservation story in the recent past. and just recently we've talked about fallen timbers and the 490 something acres that the trust is working on now.

regiment was very very busy and they were at some very important, heavy heavy battles, murfreesboro, chickamauga and ringgold gap. this was actually captured in 1864, i believe it was an ohio unit that captured this particular flag. and then it was turned over to the war department. >> what about this one over here? >> this one is what's called a hardee pattern and so is that one. this is a typical hardee pattern. they were white, usually had a white border around it with a blue field and then in the center, kind of a crescent moon or a moon shape was usually where the units, the sixth and seventh in this particular one, they would designate the units in there. and this one, once again, it, too, was at ringgold gap and at tunnel hill in tennessee, but more importantly it was at shiloh. another flag that has a very interesting history is this one. it's a hart's battery. first of all you can see it's a very very large flag. has some beautiful, beautiful work on it. this flag was returned to missouri, but it was actually an arkansas flag. it's in the first national pattern. it has the two cross can

chattanooga, we're talking about tennessee here was not most of the dead, a lot of the dead who come from chickamauga, of course but it is actually on a part of the battle of chat nooga when union forces were attacking, one of the generals talks about how he could see the union line going up and over the small crest where the cemetery would eventually be. so the national cemetery first preservation movement, although it was not intended specifically for preservation, it was more memorial features than preservation, but it did in part preserve a portion of the battlefield. now, for 30 years after that there is no major preservation effort at shiloh. there are a few other things going on in the nation that kind of precluded that. in fact, there's little or no preservation at all going on in terms of the civil war. basically, what you have is a long grueling time of reconstruction. we're trying to reconstruct what we tore apart in 1860s and that will last until of course the compromise of 1877 and that presidential election. it's during that time, of course, we're still bickering over the larger issues