21st Missouri and Pickets
Peabody's Brigade - Prentiss' Division
U.S.
21st Missouri and pickets of
Peabody's (1st) Brig., Prentiss' (6th) Div.,
Army of the Tennessee.
The 21st Mo. reenforced 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 April 6, 1862.
Col. Moore, 21st Mo., was wounded. Capt. Saxe, 16th Wis., was killed. He was the first officer killed at Shiloh.
Marker is on Reconnoitering Road, on the right when traveling north.
Courtesy hmdb.org
