From Shiloh National Cemetery, Jen of Walk with History meets Chris Mowery of Vlogging Through History to visit graves connected to Chris’s family and discuss his upcoming book on Company H of the 20th Ohio.
They tour the cemetery, including the 16th Wisconsin color guard monument, and explain how markers list only states. Chris shares the story of cousin David Mowery of the 20th Ohio, nearly 40 when he enlisted, who fought at Shiloh but died May 13, 1862 of typhoid pneumonia amid devastating disease losses in the regiment’s Shiloh section.
They discuss the cemetery’s origins (established 1866; renamed later; open until 1984), battle vs. disease deaths, Harlan Hall as the regiment’s only Shiloh battle death, and Chris’s uncle Sgt. Andrew Jackson Duval of the 77th Ohio, killed at Falling Timbers and buried in an unknown grave.
Chris wrote a book about this amazing Ohio Civil War unit…and it releases April 6!
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📍 Google Maps to Shiloh
00:00 Welcome to Shiloh
01:38 Meet Chris Mowery
02:50 Color Guard Memorial
03:46 Finding David Mowery
06:08 Disease After Shiloh
07:47 How the Cemetery Formed
08:37 20th Ohio in the Battle
09:38 Book and Company H Mystery
10:35 Why Company H Survived
10:58 Book Release
11:33 Women Soldiers at Shiloh
12:17 Cemetery History and Veterans
13:08 Amputations and Harlan Hall
14:10 Andrew Jackson Duval Story
15:59 Research Behind the Book
17:29 Tours
