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  "The Battle on Shiloh Hill" (circa 1862-1865)
  Words by M. B. Smith
  (Company C, 2nd Regiment, Texas Volunteers)
  Music adapted from "Wandering Sailor"
  Capo +3/4 Recommended
  
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  Come all ye valliant soldiers, a story I will tell,
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  About the bloody battle that was fought on Shiloh hill.
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  It was an awfull struggle and will cause your blood to chill,
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  It was the bloody battle that was fought on Shiloh Hill.
  
  It was the Sixth of April, just the break of day,
  The drums and fifes was playing for us to march away;
  The feeling of that hour I do remember still,
  For the wounded and the dying that lay of Shiloh Hill.
  
  About the hour of sunrise the battle it began,
  And before the day had vanished we fought them hand to hand;
  The horrors of the field did my heart with anguish fill,
  The wounded and the dying that lay on Shiloh Hill.
  
  They were men from every nation laid on them bloody plains,
  Fathers, sons and brothers were numbered with the slain,
  That has caused so many homes with deep mourning to be filled,
  All from the bloody battle that was fought on Shiloh Hill.
  
  The wounded men were crying for help from everywhere,
  Where others, who were dying, were offering God their prayer,
  "Protect my wife and children if it be Thy holy will!"
  Such were the prayers I heard that night on Shiloh Hill.
  
  And early the next morning we were called to arms again,
  Unmindful of the wounded and unmindful of the slain,
  The struggle was renewed and ten thousand men were killed;
  This was the second confict of the famous Shiloh Hill.
  
  The battle it raged on, though dead and dying men
  Lay thick all o'er the ground, on the hill and on the glen;
  And from their deadly wounds the blood ran like a rill;
  Such were the mournful sights that I saw on Shiloh Hill.
  
  Before the day was ended the battle ceased to roar,
  And thousands of brave soldiers had fell to rise no more;
  They left their vacant ranks for some other ones to fill,
  And now their mouldering bodies all lie on Shiloh Hill.
  
  And now my song is ended about them bloody plains,
  I hope the sight by mortal man may ne'er be seen again;
  But I'll pray to God, the Saviour, "If consistent with Thy 
  
  will,
  To save the souls of all who fell on bloody Shiloh Hill."
  
  
  
  FACTS:
  The battle of Shiloh Hill occured from April 6 to 7 in 1862
  at the river port town of Pittsburg Landing in western 
  
  Tennessee.
  General Beauregard commanded some 40,000 southern troops.
  General Grant commanded slighty more Union troops.
  "Both armies suffered casualities of approximately 25% in
  killed, wounded, and missing in a battle which ended in
  a stalemate." (ref. (1))