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is further broken by largerbranches which empty intoOwl Creek. Tillman’s Hollow,only about a mile long, is amarked feature in the topog-raphy, and is identified withsome important incidents ofthe battle.

Pittsburg Landing is three-quarters of a mile above themouth of Snake Creek, andtwo and a quarter miles be-low the mouth of Lick Creek.Shiloh Church is on OakCreek two miles and a halfsouth-west of Pittsburg Land-ing. The table-land comes upboldly to the river at the land-ing and for a mile south. Be-yond those limits the riverbends away from the highland, and the bottom gradu-ally widens.

The principal roads are theRiver road, as it will here becalled, which crosses SnakeCreek at the bridge beforementioned, and running a milewest of Pittsburg Landing,obliquely along the ridge eastof Tillman’s Creek, crossesLick Creek three-quarters ofa mile from the river at theeast end of the Lick Creekhills; the Hamburg and Purdyroad, which branches from theRiver road a mile and two-thirds in a straight line southof Pittsburg Landing, and ex-tends north -west 400 yardsnorth of Shiloh Church; andtwo roads that start at thelanding, cross the River roadtwo-thirds of a mile apart, andalso cross or run into the Ham-burg and Purdy road nearly

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