USS Shiloh (CG-67)

USS Shiloh (CG-67): Where the Civil War's Scale Became Clear

Commissioned on 18 July 1992, USS Shiloh was named for the Battle of Shiloh, fought on 6 and 7 April 1862 along the Tennessee River near Pittsburg Landing. Shiloh was the first major battle of the Civil War to make the scale of what was coming unmistakably clear to both sides. After a year of believing the war would be short, Americans on both sides learned at Shiloh that it would be long and that it would be more destructive than anything the country had previously imagined. In two days of fighting through the Tennessee woods and across peach orchards, more than 23,000 soldiers were killed, wounded, or went missing. Grant held, counterattacked on the second day, and drove the Confederate force back. But nothing would ever be simple again.

USS Shiloh served in the Pacific Fleet as one of the Ticonderoga-class ships upgraded for ballistic missile defense, her Aegis system capable of engaging ballistic missiles in the mid-course and terminal phases. In the threat environment of the Western Pacific, where North Korean and Chinese ballistic missile programs were expanding, Shiloh's BMD capability made her one of the most strategically significant surface combatants in the fleet.

She deployed across the Western Pacific and participated in the sustained forward presence that characterized Seventh Fleet operations, operating alongside nuclear-powered carriers and amphibious ready groups as part of the carrier strike group concept.

Tactically Acquired's USS Shiloh (CG-67) collection honors the crew who maintained ballistic missile defense watch in the Pacific and the battle whose name reminded them what was worth defending.