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iloh. The Tennessee flows northwest for some distance until, a little west of Hamburg, it takes its final bend to the north. Here two small streams, Owl and Lick Creeks, flowing nearly parallel, somewhat north of east, from three to five miles apart, empty into the Tennessee. Owl Creek forms the northern limit of the ridge, which Lick Creek bounds on the south. These streams, rising some ten or twelve miles back toward Corinth, were bordered near their mouths by swamps filled with backwater from the Tennessee, and impassable except where the roads crossed them. The enclosed space is a rolling table land, about one hundred feet above the river level, with its watershed lying near Lick Creek, and each slope broken by deep and frequent ravines draining into the two streams. The acclivities were covered with forests, and often thick-set with undergrowth. Pittsburg Landing, containing three or four log cabins, was situated about midway between the mouths of the creeks, in the
the enemy. The corps was immediately deployed into line of battle about a mile and a half west of Shiloh church, where Lick Creek and Owl Creek approach most nearly, and are about three miles apart. Gladden's brigade of Bragg's corps was on the rigcavalry and battery of four pieces, already thrown forward to watch and guard Grier's, Tanner's, and Borland's Fords of Lick Creek. Thirty minutes after 5 A. M., our lines and columns were in motion, all animated evidently by a promising spirit. rmined resistance of the enemy, until after 6 P. M., when we were in possession of all his encampments between Owl and Lick Creeks but one; nearly all of his field-artillery, about thirty flags, colors, and standards, over three thousand prisoners, ermined resistance of the enemy, until after 6 P. M., when we were in possession of all his encampments between Owl and Lick Creek but one. It was that one encampment that furnished a football for all the subsequent reenforcements sent by Buell, and