--- kind: "section" citation: "16 U.S.C. § 430f" title: "16" title_heading: "Conservation" number: "430f" heading: "Shiloh National Military Park" release: "119-102" date: "2026-07-12" url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/16/430f" units: - "Chapter 1 — National Parks, Military Parks, Monuments, and Seashores" - "Subchapter LX — National Military Parks" --- # §430f. Shiloh National Military Park In order that the armies of the southwest which served in the civil war, like their comrades of the eastern armies at Gettysburg and those of the central west at Chickamauga, may have the history of one of their memorable battles preserved on the ground where they fought, that part of the battlefield of Shiloh, in the [State](/usc/16/590q.md?p=a) of Tennessee, title to which has heretofore been acquired by the United States, and as to which the usual jurisdiction over the lands and the roads of same has been granted to the United States by the [State](/usc/16/590q.md?p=a) of Tennessee, containing 3,000 acres, more or less, shall be a national military [park](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-3), and shall be known as the Shiloh National Military [Park](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-3). The [Secretary](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-1) of the Interior is authorized to enter into agreements whereby he may lease, upon such terms as he may prescribe, with such [persons](/usc/16/450rr–1.md?p=b), who were [owners](/usc/16/429b–3.md?p=4) or tenants of the land on December 27, 1894, as may desire to remain upon it to occupy and cultivate their then holdings upon condition that they will [preserve](/usc/16/698u–1.md?p=2) the then buildings and roads and the then outlines of field and forest, and that they only will cut trees or underbrush under such regulations as the [Secretary](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-1) may prescribe, and that they will assist in caring for and protecting all tablets, monuments, or such other artificial works as may from time to time be erected by proper authority. It shall be the duty of the [Secretary](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-1) of the Interior to cause to be opened or repaired such roads as may be necessary for the purposes of the [park](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-3) and to cause to be ascertained and marked with historical tablets or otherwise, as he may determine, all lines of battle of the troops engaged in the battle of Shiloh and other historical points of interest pertaining to the battle within the [park](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-3) or its vicinity, and the [Secretary](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-1) of the Interior shall make and enforce all needed regulations for the care of the [park](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-3). It shall be lawful for any [State](/usc/16/590q.md?p=a) that had troops engaged in the battle of Shiloh to enter upon the lands of the Shiloh National Military [Park](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-3) for the purpose of ascertaining and marking the lines of battle of its troops therein: Provided, That before any such lines are permanently designated the position of the lines and the proposed methods of marking them by monuments, tablets, or otherwise shall be submitted to and approved by the [Secretary](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-1) of the Interior, and all such lines, designs and inscriptions for the same shall first receive the written approval of the [Secretary](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-1): Provided, That no discrimination shall be made against any [State](/usc/16/590q.md?p=a) as to the manner of designating lines, but any grant made to any [State](/usc/16/590q.md?p=a) by the [Secretary](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-1) of the Interior may be used by any other [State](/usc/16/590q.md?p=a). ## Source credit (Dec. 27, 1894, ch. 12, 28 Stat. 597; Ex. Ord. No. 6166, § 2, June 10, 1933; Ex. Ord. No. 6228, § 1, July 28, 1933; Pub. L. 89–554, § 8(a), Sept. 6, 1966, 80 Stat. 637.) ## Notes ### Editorial Notes ### Codification Section is based on sections 1 to 6 of act Dec. 27, 1894. Section 7 of the act, which established fines for offenses against park property, and section 8, which authorized initial appropriations for the park, were not classified to the Code. ### Amendments 1966—Pub. L. 89–554 struck out provisions which required the affairs of Shiloh National Military Park to be subject to supervision and direction of Secretary of the Interior. ### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries ### Exchange of Lands Act June 25, 1947, ch. 126, 61 Stat. 173, provided: “That the Secretary of the Interior is authorized, in his discretion, and under such terms and conditions as he may deem necessary, to convey, without consideration, to W. A. Shaw and E. L. Shaw, or nominees, the following-described lands within Shiloh National Military Park in Hardin County in the State of Tennessee: Beginning at a point from which the intersection of Shiloh National Military Park boundary between boundary corners numbered 228 and 229 with center line of Confederate Road bears south eight degrees fifty-seven minutes east, eighty and thirty-seven one-hundredths feet (said intersection bears north eighty-eight degrees ten minutes fourteen seconds west, one thousand one hundred and thirty-one and eighty-nine one-hundredths feet from boundary corner numbered 228); thence north twenty-nine degrees thirty-one minutes west, three hundred and twenty-six feet; thence south seventy-six degrees nineteen minutes east, three hundred and thirty-seven and fifty-four one-hundredths feet; and thence running sixty feet from and parallel to center line of Confederate Road south thirty-nine degrees twenty minutes west, two hundred and sixty-three and forty-six one-hundredths feet to the point of beginning. The tract as described contains approximately ninety-two one-hundredths acre. For the purpose of consolidating Federal holdings within the park, the Secretary of the Interior is authorized, in his discretion and under such terms and conditions as he may deem necessary, to accept any non-Federal real or personal property within the authorized boundaries of the park. In exchange for such properties, he may, in his discretion, convey to the grantors of such properties any Federally owned lands or interests in lands within the authorized boundaries of the park which are of approximately equal value, as determined by the Secretary, to the properties being acquired in each case.” ### Executive Documents ### Transfer of Functions Administrative functions of Shiloh National Military Park transferred to Department of the Interior by Ex. Ord. Nos. 6166 and 6228, set out as notes under section 901 of Title 5, Government Organization and Employees. National Park Service substituted for Office of National Parks, Buildings, and Reservations referred to in Ex. Ord. No. 6166, by act Mar. 2, 1934, ch. 38, § 1, 48 Stat. 389.