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Sean of the South

A Funeral at Shiloh

Sean of the South

Sean Dietrich

Personal Journals, S-town, Music, Alabama, Garrison Keillor, Storytelling, Story, Garden And Gun, Southern Living, Serial, Southern Culture, S Town, Old Radio, Lake Wobegon, Stories, Prairie Home Companion, Arts, Society & Culture, Live From Here, Story Podcast

5.0546 Ratings

🗓️ 18 September 2025

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

Sean recalls a recent trip to a special, historic, ghostly place.

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Music The Sean of the South podcast starts now. There were ghosts everywhere.

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That's what I kept thinking while standing on shallow battlefield.

1:15.3

Ghosts.

1:17.1

You could feel them.

1:19.3

You could almost hear their fraternal laughter.

1:22.6

You could smell their gunpowder.

1:26.1

You see, a ghost is merely a soul who doesn't want to be forgotten.

1:30.4

And beneath our feet at Shiloh National Military Park,

1:33.7

beneath 163 years of gravel and grit,

1:37.8

there were tens of thousands of forgotten souls.

1:42.6

There were long-forgotten boys in uniforms, men who had families once, who never saw their

1:49.2

wives again, who never more kissed their mothers again, or shook hands with their old men,

1:55.0

or bounced babies on their laps.

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