ShortRound's Shiloh Tours and Military Museum

09/07/2024

For the first time I am selling something from the museum! I have more than one and they are both in the same condition. Item for sale is:

Post WWII Bulgarian uniform. Red piping on the top and trousers. Asking $50 plus shipping but I’ll take offers!

Bulgarian military uniform set. Condition is Used. Shipped with USPS Ground Advantage.

08/14/2024

A Vietnam era Australian Naval officers uniform and post WWII Bulgarian uniform added to the museum! Huge thanks to Geardo Military Collectibles & Antiques!

08/09/2024

Newest addition to the Museum! Canadian Naval Officers top from WWII!

08/05/2024

Two newest additions to the headwear display! An East German Air Force Visor Cap and a post WWII Dutch Army Visor Cap.

07/14/2024

05/29/2024

While in the Memphis area, I picked up this Belgian M1 helmet to add to the helmet display! Thank you Kaleb Cruse for this awesome piece!

05/27/2024

On this day we remember the fallen and those brave men and women who are no longer with us. This is a solemn day, reminding us that freedom isn’t free. Below I have put together a few slides displaying a few of the named items in the museum. These men answered the call and served when their country needed them. Have a safe and blessed Memorial Day. God Bless those who have served, are serving, and will serve.

05/11/2024

Due to unforeseen circumstances the Hornets Nest Hike has been cancelled. Sorry for the inconvenience this may have caused.

05/08/2024

In honor of Victory Europe (VE) Day, I took a few pictures of some of the ETO related items in the museum. These items are American, German, and Russian. All are original and all tell a story from this bloody conflict. Though we didn’t know them, their stories deserve to be told. 79 years ago today the path to peace with Germany began.

Note: all items displayed are done so for historical purposes only, no ideologies are supported or promoted.

05/03/2024

Another piece has come home to the museum! This is a named WWI helmet, which belonged to Private First Class Clyde Robert Andrews. Pfc Andrews was in Company A, 158th infantry. While the 158th did make it to theater, they would not see combat. Huge shout out and thank you to Kaleb Cruse at Haze Grey Antiques for helping me to acquire this piece!

04/28/2024

Free tours are available through ShortRound’s Shiloh Tours & Military Museum! Book today!

04/22/2024

04/02/2024

The museum received a package today with something truly incredible inside! It’s not often one can tell the story of both father and son with named uniforms! In the package:

- Korean War era Ike jacket and trousers. SSG rank, 80th Infantry patch, Ocupation Medal (Germany), National Defense Medal.

- BDU top issued in 1989. PFC rank. Occupation badge for a 68J: Aircraft Armament missile systems repair technician. 211th Aviation Regiment.

You might have noticed that the SGM (Ret.) is pictured in a Confederate uniform. He was a long time Reenactor and dedicated member of the Sons of Confederate Veterans. He was involved as a reenactor in the films Gettysburg and Lincoln.

Thank you for your service SGM Robert E. Schindler and PFC Andy Schindler.

03/23/2024

If there’s one thing I love doing, it’s showing folks Shiloh! Book a tour with me and let’s hike one of the most preserved battlefields in country! Don’t have time for a day hike? No problem! Driving tours are available along with tours of specific areas of the field! Tours are FREE! Book today!

03/17/2024

On this St. Patrick’s Day let us remember General Patrick Cleburne. Here is a portion of his after action report from the battle of Shiloh. It details the opening fight that his brigade and others would endure in the first hours of the battle of Shiloh.

“I was soon in sight of the enemy's encampments, behind the first of which he had formed his line of battle. He was very advantageously posted and overlapped my left flank by at least half a brigade. His line was lying down behind the rising ground on which his tents were pitched, and opposite my right he had made a breastwork of logs and bales of hay. Everywhere his musketry and artillery at short range swept the open spaces between the tents in his front with an iron storm that threatened certain destruction to every living thing that would dare to cross them. An almost impassable morass, jutting out from the foot of the height on which the enemy's tents stood, impeded the advance of my center, and finally caused a wide opening in my line. The Fifth Tennessee and the regiments on its left kept to the left of this swamp, and the Sixth Mississippi and Twenty-third Tennessee advanced on its right. My own horse bogged down in it and threw me, and it was with great difficulty I got out. My brigade was soon on the verge of the encampments and the battle began in earnest. Trigg's battery, posted on some high ground in the woods in my rear, opened over the heads of my men, but so thick were the leaves, he could only see in one direction, while the enemy were playing on him from several. The result was he was unable to accomplish much, and was ordered to a new position. I had no artillery under my command from this time forward. The Sixth Mississippi and Twenty-third Tennessee charged through the encampments on the enemy. The line was necessarily broken by the standing tents. Under the terrible fire much confusion followed, and a quick and bloody repulse was the consequence. The Twenty-third Tennessee was with difficulty rallied about 100 yards in the rear; again and again the Sixth Mississippi, unaided, charged the enemy's line, and it was only when the regiment had lost 300 officers and men killed and wounded, out of an aggregate of 425, that it yielded and retreated in disorder over its own dead and dying. Colonel Thornton and Major Lowry, the field officers, were both wounded. It would be useless to enlarge on the courage and devotion of the Sixth Mississippi. The facts as recorded speak louder than any words of mine.”

‎History · 2011

03/16/2024

Here is the estimated forecast for the church service next weekend.

03/16/2024

Do you love to ride motorcycles and see civil war battlefields? I do too! This summer I’ll be offering motorcycle tours of Shiloh! Book a tour with the subject “motorcycle” and let me know when you want to cruise through one of the most well preserved battlefields in the country! To book email me at:

[email protected]

03/07/2024

Attention to orders!

A limited edition patch from war bond efforts in Ukraine was donated to the museum to be put on display by an English member of Legenda Militaria. Legenda is a Latvian based organization that travels and locates forgotten soldiers from WWI & WWII. They find German and Russian (sometimes Latvian conscripts for both sides) and reinter them into their respective cemeteries. They’ve found somewhere in the neighborhood of 15,000+ soldiers and given them a final resting place. Legenda is auctioning off the remaining patches detailed in the flyer below. If you’re interested you can message me and I’ll get you in contact with legenda to make your bid on the patch. They very well may be locating Russian and Ukrainian soldiers and saving them from unmarked graves in the future. The patches go towards the Ukrainian war effort, but you can also make a donation to legenda to help them in their historically related mission. Anything helps both causes!

- ShortRound

03/05/2024

Mail call for the museum! Huge shout out to Matt and Legenda for helping keep history alive and giving a final resting place to soldiers across Latvia! Thank you so much! Cheers from Tennessee! Soon to be on display:

WW2 Relics
Russian IL2 aircraft parts found last year
German tag ( not found with soldier )
Trench art Ring
buttons
insignia and coin
German helmet dug in bunker
(All German)

WW1 relics found near Riga
Pickle helmet insignia
Belt buckle
WW1 tag ( not found with soldier)
Imperial button

Ukraine items
2 new patches we have had specially made
1 is Legenda 25 year patch
2 UK Ukraine aid patch
Ukraine ration packet
Darts from illegal Russian shell
Ukraine patch
2 military issue special coins

02/20/2024

In honor of the new show “Masters of the Air” I’d like to highlight a piece of B-17 history here in the museum. This .50 caliber ammo can was donated by Air Force Veteran Oscar Crouch Jr. Many thanks to helping keep history and their memory alive! With this ammo can, the stories of countless aviators can be told. If you have an Airman from WWII that you know of, post their stories in the comments below! Let’s keep their memories alive and stories told!

02/12/2024

Newest newsletter is up! Gives a brief overview of new assets for the museum and upcoming events!

02/10/2024

02/09/2024

Two named pieces I have in the museum. Both WWII PTO veterans.

Left:
Machinist Mate 3rd class W. Kennedy
USS McDermut DD-677

Right:
Lieutenant N. Gelesko
USS Housatonic AO-35

Note: I believe Gelesko was enlisted during WWII, and the commission came later.

02/09/2024

Another new addition that arrived today is this correct cap for the Machinist Mate 3rd Class W.M. Kennedy uniform!