As far as the maps and the blocks on the maps have meaning, The situation is this. A wide Western river, A little lost landing, with a steamboat-store, A post office where the roads from the landings meet, A plank church three miles inland called Shiloh Chapel, An undulating and broken table-land Roughed into a triangle by bordering creeks. Each side of the triangle runs about four miles long And, scattered in camps from the tip of the triangle To the base at the landing, are thirty-three thousand men, Some fairly seasoned in war, but many green sticks, Grant’s Army of the Tennessee. Down the river Don Carlos Buell has twenty-five thousand more In the Army of the Ohio. Opposing these Are Albert Sidney Johnston and Beauregard With something like forty-thousand butternut fighters, Including a martial bishop. Johnston plans

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