The Seventy-seventh Pennsylvania at Shiloh : History of the regiment ; the battle of Shiloh . , which lieseight miles south of Savannah, Tennessee, on the west bank ofthe Tennessee river. High bluffs, at this point, confine the riverboth north and south of the Landing, where steamboatsstopped occasionally to land or take on passengers or the landing a dirt road ran through a deep ravine inthe bluffs, to the country back of the river, the soil of whichis a stiff, tenacious clay, almost impervious to water. Therewere none but dirt roads which, in wet weather, becamealmost impassable
The Seventy-seventh Pennsylvania at Shiloh : History of the regiment ; the battle of Shiloh . , which lieseight miles south of Savannah, Tennessee, on the west bank ofthe Tennessee river. High bluffs, at this point, confine the riverboth north and south of the Landing, where steamboatsstopped occasionally to land or take on passengers or the landing a dirt road ran through a deep ravine inthe bluffs, to the country back of the river, the soil of whichis a stiff, tenacious clay, almost impervious to water. Therewere none but dirt roads which, in wet weather, becamealmost impassable and which were at all times utterly so forheavy hauling. The country was thickly overgrown with tim-ber, full of dense underbrush. There were a number of clear-ings under cultivation. About two and one-half miles fromthe landing stood the small log Methodist meeting housecalled Shiloh Church, from which this battle took its church was on the main road to Corinth, Mississippi,twenty-two miles distant from Pittsburg Landing. On this ground, within a radius of two miles and three-. PRINT: JULIUS BIEN 8 CO. NEW YORK Mc COOK. The Battle of Shiloh. 79 quarters, Grants entire army was encamped, when it was un-expectedly attacked on the eventful Sunday morning, thesixth of April, 1802. During that days terrible fight theUnion forces were driven steadily back, until the Confederateshad reached a point within six hundred yards from the land-ing itself, when fortunately, night put an end to the conflict. As the boats drew near the shore, men crowded the banksof the river, preparing to jump aboard, as soon as the vesselsgot near enough for them to do so. Guards, with fixed bay-onets had to be stationed all along the gunwales to keep thismob of frightened and demoralized soldiers off the boats. Itwas estimated that there were fully 8,000 of these skulkershiding behind the bluffs along the river, near the landing. Bythis crowd the disembarking regiments wrere greeted so
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