Shiloh Battlefield Driving Audio Tour App: Self-Guided GPS

Drive the battlefield in chronological order, stopping where you want to linger

A self-guided GPS audio driving tour of Shiloh Battlefield in Tennessee that plays automatically as you drive, taking you through over 20 key locations including the Hornet's Nest, Shiloh Church, Peach Orchard, Pittsburg Landing and Bloody Pond. You control the stops and the pace. The narration follows the battle's sequence and never expires, so you can return anytime.

Step-by-step itinerary

Explore Shiloh Battlefield landmarks

• Visit visitor center and museum
• See Iowa State Monument
• Stand at Grant's Last Line
• View Confederate monument
• Explore Shiloh Church
• Walk the Hornet's Nest sunken road
• Visit Alabama soldiers monument
• See Hazen's bayonet charge site
• Visit Bloody Pond
• End at Pittsburg Landing

The experience

How do you stand at the places where a battle actually turned? This tour puts you behind the wheel at Shiloh, with GPS-guided audio that plays as you drive and stops whenever you choose. The app takes you through the battle in order (from the opening Confederate assault through Grant's desperate final stand), so the geography itself tells the story. You'll hear about the Hornet's Nest, where Union soldiers held off repeated attacks for six hours, and about General Albert Sidney Johnston, who died with a lifesaving tourniquet still in his pocket. The narration is timed to your movement, so it plays only when you're driving between stops.

Over 20 locations unfold across the battlefield: the Iowa State Monument with its towering granite column; Grant's Last Line, where nearly eighty cannons made their final stand with the Tennessee River at their back; the reconstructed Shiloh Church that served as a Confederate field hospital; Bloody Pond, where wounded soldiers from both armies crawled for water; and Pittsburg Landing, where Union reinforcements arrived by steamboat. The tour takes two to four hours depending on how long you spend at each site. You start at the visitor center, which holds Civil War artifacts and an award-winning orientation film, then move through the battlefield at your own rhythm.

The app never expires, so you can return to Shiloh whenever you want and pick up where you left off. Autoplay means the narration starts automatically as you drive, and you can pause, rewind or skip ahead without losing the thread. No guide, no fixed schedule, no group. Just the battlefield, the story and the time you need to take it in.

What’s included

• Self-guided GPS audio driving tour app with autoplay narration that plays as you drive.
• access to over 20 battlefield locations including the Hornet's Nest, Shiloh Church, Peach Orchard, Pittsburg Landing, Bloody Pond and Grant's Last Line.
• the tour in English.
• lifetime access to the app so you can return anytime.

Before you book

Days and timesEvery day

GroupPrivate

Audio guideEnglish

Meeting point and pickupNo hotel pickup: you go to the meeting point. Ends at a different place from where it starts.

Cancellation and refundsFree cancellation up to 24 h before the start. After that, no refund.

Prices and times updated 3 days ago

Good to know

Low physical effort

Operated by WalknTours

Is this one for you?Choose this tour if you want to move at your own pace and linger at the sites that matter most to you. The autoplay narration keeps the story moving as you drive, but you set the stops and the timing, so a two-hour visit and a four-hour deep dive both work equally well.

Top questions

What is the Hornet's Nest and why does it matter at Shiloh?

The Hornet's Nest is a sunken road where Union soldiers held off repeated Confederate assaults for six hours, a stand that changed the course of the battle and kept Grant's army from being driven into the Tennessee River.

Can I stop and walk around at the sites, or do I stay in the car the whole time?

You stop wherever you like and walk around to explore. The tour is built for you to get out at each location. The audio plays as you drive between stops.

Do I need to start at the visitor center, or can I begin anywhere on the battlefield?

The tour is designed to start at the visitor center, where you'll see Civil War artifacts and an orientation film that sets the context before you drive the battlefield itself.

How long does the whole tour take?

The tour takes two to four hours depending on how long you spend at each of the over 20 locations. You control the pace entirely.

What happens if I don't finish the tour in one visit?

The app never expires and you can return anytime to continue where you left off, so you can split the tour across multiple visits if you prefer.