Shiloh, Mississippi

Shiloh is a ghost town located in Issaquena County, Mississippi, United States. Shiloh Landing was its port on the Mississippi River.

Shiloh began as a plantation owned by Richard Christmas, who in 1860 held 160 enslaved laborers there. A post office operated under the name Shiloh Landing from 1892 to 1901 and under the name Shiloh from 1901 to 1932.

In 1900, Shiloh had a post office and a population of 78.

Nothing remains of Shiloh, which today is uninhabited and covered by forest to river's edge.

References

1. Shiloh
2. Shiloh National Military Park
3. Battle of Shiloh
4. 6th Mississippi Infantry Regiment
5. Shiloh, Hardin County, Tennessee
6. 147th Regiment (United States)
7. Army of Mississippi
8. Puckett, Mississippi
9. Albert Sidney Johnston
10. Western theater of the American Civil War
11. Mississippi River Squadron
12. Mississippi in the American Civil War
13. Army of the Tennessee
14. 2011 Rainsville tornado
15. Hardin County, Tennessee
16. Issaquena County, Mississippi
17. 138th Infantry Regiment (United States)
18. Alcorn County, Mississippi
19. Tishomingo County, Mississippi
20. Grant's Canal