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MAP OF THE ROUTES BY WHICH GENERAL GRANT WAS REENFORCED AT PITTSBURG LANDING.

Authorities : (1.) The Official or Thom map (p. 508), forroads and distances on the south side of Snake Creek;(2.) the Union Camp map (pp. 496-7), for the location ofcamps morning of April 5th, 1862 ; (3.) the Shiloh mapin General Badeau’s “ Military History of U. S. Grant,”for the main roads on the north side of Snake Creek,that map also agreeing with General McPherson’ssketch map without scale in “ Official Records,” Vol. X.,p. 183; (4.) General 'Wallace’s statement to the editors,1887, based on investigations and measurements in 1884,

limit of march at C. This was probably intendedfor the point where Rowley came tip with the rearof the column, which must have covered a distanceof two miles or more; but if intended for thelimit of the advance, it could not have been fixedon McPherson’s own knowledge, for when Rawlinsand McPherson, who were also sent by GeneralGrant (McPherson says at 2:30) to hasten themovement, following Rowley’s course, came upwith the division (Rawlins says about 3 ; 30), theFirst Brigade had passed across toward E and theSecond was passing. Some mystery attaches to theinaction of the Third Brigade during the morning.General Wallace states in his report that it wasconcentrated on the Second, meaning, as heexplains to the editors, that the order for theconcentration had been sent, and, he presumed,obeyed. Colonel Ross delivered the order to ColonelCharles R. Woods, then in command at Adamsville,and Captain Ware, Wallace’s second aid, carried arepetition of it—both during the morning. [Ross toWallace, January 25th, 1868, and Ware to Wallace,1868.] Yet Colonel Whittlesey,who during theday, by seniority of commission, succeeded to the

by Captain George P. Brown and Dr. S. D. Ensmin-ger, for tlie roads from G to C and from C to E, andfor the point D as the limit of the march toward OwlCreek. N. B.—No detailed survey appears to have beenmade.

Key to routes of Wallace’s division:

Route of First Brigade, morning of April 6tli —F A.

Route of First and Second brigades to the battlefield,afternoon — ABCDCIIEK.

Route of Third Brigade, afternoon — G C H E K.

command of the brigade,says in his report that threeof the four regiments “received orders to marchwith their trains about 2 P. M., and to advance to-ward Pittsburg Landing in advance of the trains at4 P. M.” This they did (General Wallace informs us)by the route shown on the map. The fourth regi-ment went to Crump’s to guard the public property-

The “Official Records” (Vol. X., p. 177) alsocontain a rough sketch map, submitted by GeneralWallace to General Halleck, accompanying a mem-orandum dated March 14th, 1863. That map ismanifestly imperfect in representing but onebridge between A and the right of the army, thejunction of Owl and Snake creeks being placedabove the upper Snake creek bridge, instead ofbelow it. General Wallace himself has informedthe editors that that map is incorrect, and that itsinaccuracy arose from a prevalent confusion of thenames of Snake and Owl creeks. That map, how-ever, faithfully represents General Wallace’s claimthat the head of his column advanced to withina mile of what had been the right of the army.This confusion of the two creeks has given am-biguity to General Wallace’s statement in his re-