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Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War: The Opening Battles. Volume 1., The battle of Shiloh. (search)
or three miles from Pittsburg Landing, and on the ridge which divides the waters of Snake and Lick creeks, the former entering into the Tennessee just north of Pittsburg Landing, and the latter south of his division was much weakened. The position of our troops made a continuous line from Lick Creek, on the left, to Owl Creek, a branch of Snake Creek, on the right, facing nearly south, and pos and unbroken line was maintained all day from Snake Creek or its tributaries on the right to Lick Creek or the Tennessee on the left, above Pittsburg. There was no hour during the day when there waplowed for several years, probably because the land was Ford where the Hamburg road crosses Lick Creek, looking from Colonel Stuart's position on the federal left. Lick Creek at this point was fLick Creek at this point was fordable on the first day of the battle, but the rains on Sunday night rendered it impassable on the second day. poor, bushes had grown up, some to the height of eight or ten feet. There was not one of
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War: The Opening Battles. Volume 1., Shiloh reviewed. (search)
tary, Owl Creek, and on the south, or south-west, by a range of hills which immediately border Lick Creek on the north bank, two hundred feet or more in height, and sloping gradually toward the battlenterlocking with a ravine called Locust Grove Creek, which runs in the opposite direction into Lick Creek a mile from its mouth. Other short, deep ravines start from the table-land and empty into therters of a mile above the mouth of Snake Creek, and two and a quarter miles below the mouth of Lick Creek. Shiloh Church is on Oak Creek two miles and a half south-west of Pittsburg Landing. The tabg a mile west of Pittsburg Landing, obliquely along the ridge east of Tillman's Creek, crosses Lick Creek three-quarters of a mile from the river at the east end of the Lick Creek hills; the Hamburg aan proved to be the case. On that supposition Nelson was ordered rapidly to the lower ford of Lick Creek, by which I supposed a part of the enemy had advanced and would retreat, and was thus out of p
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War: The Opening Battles. Volume 1., chapter 12.46 (search)
o, of his gun-boats; he was expecting Buell daily; and the ground was admirable for defense. Indeed, his position was a natural stronghold. Flanked by Owl and Lick creeks, with their marshy margins, and with his front protected by a swampy valley, he occupied a quadrilateral of great strength. His troops were stationed on woodeoe, and that foe all unaware of his coming. His front line, composed of the Third corps and Gladden's brigade, was under Hardee, and extended from Owl Creek to Lick Creek, more than three miles. (see maps.) Hindman's division of two brigades occupied the center, Cleburne's brigade had the left, and Gladden's the right wing--an eftuart on the left and Sherman's shattered division on the right. General Johnston had pushed Chalmers to the right and front, sweeping down the left bank of Lick Creek, driving in pickets, until he encountered Stuart's Federal brigade on the Pittsburg and Hamburg road. Stuart was strongly posted on a steep hill near the River
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War: The Opening Battles. Volume 1., chapter 12.47 (search)
r. A narrow cul de sac, formed by Snake Creek and Lick Creek, with the broad bank-full river forming its bottof Bragg's right or between the Pittsburg road and Lick Creek. The troops of the third line were to be thrown ce to be assailed occupied a continuous line from Lick Creek, on the [Federal] left, to Owl Creek, a branch ofwas on the extreme left, with its left resting on Lick Creek. This division had from 16 to 18 guns, and also ulating table-land embraced between Owl Creek and Lick Creek, that run nearly in the same general direction anround rises somewhat ridge-like in the quarter of Lick Creek, and recent rains had made all these depressions f Snake Creek, was about three miles from that of Lick Creek. The two roads from Corinth, while crossing LickLick Creek about a mile asunder, come together two miles from Pittsburg. A road from Purdy, crossing Owl Creek byight there was left a vacant space between it and Lick Creek, to fill which Chalmers's brigade of Withers's di
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War: The Opening Battles. Volume 1., The Shiloh battle-order and the withdrawal Sunday . (search)
on the field at that last hour of the battle of the 6th, a witness of the actually fruitless efforts made to storm the last position held by the enemy upon the ridge covering the immediate landing-place, known as Pittsburg, he might be better informed why it was that that position was not carried, and be less disposed to adduce such testimony as that of General Bragg, to the effect that but for the order given by Beauregard to withdraw from action he would have carried all before him. It so happened that I rejoined General Beauregard at a point near Shiloh Chapel (having escorted General Prentiss from the field to General Beauregard), when General Bragg rode up from the front, and I heard him say in an excited manner: General, we have carried everything before us to the Tennessee River. I have ridden from Owl to Lick Creek, and there is none of the enemy to be seen. Beauregard quietly replied: Then, General, do not unnecessarily expose your command to the fire of the gun-boats.