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Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War: The Opening Battles. Volume 1., Shiloh reviewed. (search)
direction into Lick Creek a mile from its mouth. Other short, deep ravines start from the table-land and empty into the river, the principal among them being Dill's Branch, six hundred yards above the landing. Midway in the front, at the foot of the Lick Creek hills, start a number of surface drains which soon unite in somewhat est side of the river, 400 yards back from the landing and parallel with the river, is a line 100 yards long marked Grant. Extending back from the river along Dill's Branch, is a line half a mile long marked Detachments. This might mean the reserve artillery. From the outer extremity of the Detachments is a line two-thirds of a e west bank of the river on the Sherman map. Its presence there at the time in question is as notorious as the battle itself. The distance from the landing to Dill's Branch is six hundred yards. Sherman places his Detachments, i.e., the reserve artillery, exactly on the line of that branch, whereas they were five hundred yards nor