Is PEACE and SOLITUDE in a place of unspeakable violence.


One of my favorite places in the mornings. The monument to the soldiers from Tennessee is just to the left. This shot looks north.
Confederate General P. G. T. Beauregard had his headquarters about 40 meters from this spot, which became the headquarters for the entire army when General Albert Sidney Johnston died a mile east of here, near the Peach Orchard. He was shot by a stray bullet from the retreating Iowa corp, as the brigade retreated in defeat. He was wounded in the femoral artery, and died with a tourniquet in his pocket of his field coat. It was April 6, 1862.