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broad. Interlaced by a network of ravines, which, near the river, are deep,with abrupt sides, the ground rises somewhat ridge-like in the quarter ofLick Creek, and recent rains had made all these depressions boggy and diffi-cult for the movement of artillery across them. A primitive forest, densewith undergrowth, spread over the whole space except a few scattered farmfields of from fiftyto seventy-five acres.

Pittsburg Landing,near the mouth ofSnake Creek, wasabout three milesfrom that of LickCreek. The two roadsfrom Corinth, whilecrossing Lick Creekabout a mile asunder,come together twomiles from Pittsburg.

A road from Purdy,crossing Owl Creek bya bridge near Sher-man’s right, gave oneway to reach the fieldfrom Crump’s Land-ing, but the shortestroad between the twolandings was one nearthe river leading overa bridge across SnakeCreek.

As it has been de-nied in the highestquarters that the Con-federate attack on the 6th of April was of the nature of a surprise, it belongsto the history of the day’s operations to give here these words of a note fromGeneral Sherman to his chief, in the afternoon of the 5th. The “ enemy issaucy, but got the worst of it yesterday. ... I do not apprehend any-thing like an attack upon our position.” General Grant thereupon wroteto his superior, General Halleck: “ Our outposts have been attacked in con-siderable force. I immediately went up, but found all quiet. ... I havescarcely the faintest idea of an attack upon us.” Moreover, at 3 o’clockp. m., having visited the encampment of Colonel Ammen near Savannah ,General Grant informed that officer that water transportation would befurnished for his brigade of Nelson’s division, Army of the Ohio, on the7th or 8th of April, or some time early in the week, and also that therewould be “ no fight ” at Pittsburg, but at “ Corinth, where the rebels were

MAJOR-GENERAL BUSHKOD R. JOHNSON, C. S. A.FROM A WAR-TIME PHOTOGRAPH.