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[100] there is a valley that twice crosses the road to the northward and the southward of Brotherton's place. A wood fringing this valley on the north and extending to a ridge of timbered land completely surrounds on the east the fields of Kelly's farm, which on that side cover an area about a quarter of a mile wide and three-quarters of a mile long from north to south. This stretch of hills and groves forms a semicircle a mile and a quarter in diameter, and crosses the road on the north not far from McDonald's house. At a short distance is the junction of the main road with the road leading from Reed's Bridge to McFarland's Gap. Thus this long opening under cultivation divides in two sections the space included between Missionary Ridge and the Chickamauga. On the river-side, in the principal bend at the upper part of which is Tedford's Ford, may be seen Hunt's plantation, with its fields abutting on the bank of the river. To the northward there is a thick grove crowned with rocky knobs and traversed by two roads which meet on the edge of the wood. To the westward this grove extends to the Vineyard fields and covers with its thick mantle of green a slight rise of ground parallel with the road, from which it is separated by a few hundred yards. At the point where Brotherton's house stands this ridge dips to the east, and, continuing along the left bank of the little stream which has its source between that house and Poe's, gradually rises, and farther on slopes to form the chain of hillocks around Kelly's farm. From the highest elevation there diverge toward the east inclines so gentle that they resemble a kind of undulating plateau, in the centre of which is McDaniel's farm. This plateau, timbered everywhere else and nearly fifteen hundred yards wide, is bounded on the east and south-east by cultivated fields through which runs a rivulet. A little more to the northward, above Jay's Mill, this plateau ends in a rocky and commanding cliff occupied by the Confederates on the evening of the 18th, and afterward, on the morning of the 19th, by Daniel McCook. The country around the mill up to Reed's Bridge is open and pretty well tilled. To the north of Kelly's farm the spur parallel with the road rises again, and forms a considerable knoll covered on the south and south-west with thickets. On the north and west, on the contrary, it is bounded by a creek flowing through

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