Pittsburg  is  the  nearest  point  to  Oorinth  on  the  river.  The
road  winds  up  the  bank,  passes  along  the  edge  of  a  deep
ravine,  leading  southwest.  It  forks  a  half-mile  from  the
Landing,  the  left-hand  path  leading  to  Hamburg  up  the  river,
and  the  main  road  leading  to  Shiloh  Church,  four  miles  from
the  Landing.  The  accompanying  sketch  of  the  church  was
taken  the  week  after  the  battle,  with  the  head-quarter  tents  of
General  Sherman  around  it.  I*»  architecture  is  exceedingly
primitive.  It  is  a  fair  type  of  the  inertness  of  the  people  of
that  region  at  the  time.  It  is  about  twenty-five  or  thirty
feet  square,  btiUt  of  logs,  without  pulpit  or  pews,  with  rude
benches  for  seats.  Once  it  was  chinked  with,  clay,  but  the
rains  have  washed  oui  the  mortar,  and  the  wind  comes  in
through  all  the  crevices.  It  is  thoroughly  ventilated.  It
would   make  a  good  corn-crib  for  an  Illinois  farmer.
A  brook  meanders  through  the  forest,  furnishing  water  for
the  worshipping  assemblies.  South  of  the  church,  and  across
the  brook,  is  a  clearing,  —  an  old  farm-house  where  Beauregard
wrote  his  despatch  to  Jeff  Davis  on  Simday  night,  announcing
a  great  victory.  There  are  other  little  clearings,  which  have
been  long  imder  cultivation.  The  people  were  too  indolent  to
make  new  openings  in  the  forest,  where  centuries  of  mould  had
accumulated.  The  country  was  but  little  further  advanced
than  when  Daniel  •Boone  passed  through  the  Cumberland  G^p.
