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Pittsburg Landing

noun

  1. a village in SW Tennessee, on the Tennessee River: battle of Shiloh in 1862.


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Once more embarked, I concluded to drop down to Pittsburg Landing, and to make the attempt from there.

Pittsburg Landing, as its name indicates, was simply a landing place for steamboats.

He made his head-quarters at Savannah, a small town ten miles below Pittsburg Landing, on the east side of the river.

There is a deep ravine just above Pittsburg Landing, which extends northwest half a mile.

They were so far advanced towards Pittsburg Landing, that Sherman saw he was in danger of being cut off.

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