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cannonading, distinctly audible, quickened the steps of the men. Snake Creek, difficult of passage at all times, on account of its steep bank, which, following the windings of the Tennessee bottom, crossed Snake Creek by a good bridge close to Pittsburgh Landing. This movement occrth, was a range of bluffs overlooking the swampy low grounds of Snake Creek, heavily timbered, broken by ravines, and extending in a course separate roads lead off to Purdy, and another, a new one, across Snake Creek to Crump's Landing on the river below. Besides these, the wholeill farther to the right and rear, among the ravines that border Snake Creek. And here, so far as Sunday's fight is concerned, the greaterwas coming in on the new road from Crump's Landing, and crossing Snake Creek just above the Illinois Wallace's (W. H. L.) camps, was to take n he had received from Gen. Grant at noon, he had started on the Snake Creek road proper, which would have brought him in on the enemy's rear