21st Missouri Infantry and Pickets of Peabody’s 1st Brigade Position Marker: Seay Field, Shiloh National Military Park

U. S.

21^ST MISSOURI AND PICKETS OF

PEABODY’S (1^ST) BRIG., PRENTISS (6^TH) DIV.,

ARMY OF THE TENNESSEE

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The 21st MO. reinforced the reconnoitering party of 25th Mo. and the pickets of 12th Michigan and 4 companies of 16th Wis. At this place and engaged the Confederate advance 30 minutes, soon after sunrise Apr. 6, 1862.

Col. Moore, 21st Mo., was wounded.  Capt. Saxe, 16th Wis., was killed.  I was the first officer killed at Shiloh

Seay Field, looking south from Reconnoitering Road,
Shiloh National Military Park