Rowland Station Road is now called and has a sign saying Hennessee Bridge Road.  This map is old as the red road is now Old Sparta Road and is named Highway 139.  Shiloh Church used to be about where the 940 bench mark is locatrd at the intersection.  The first black dot north past the intersection on the north side of the road in the circle is the old William "Rock" Martin home which is in Master's thesis status going for National Historical Register status.  Shiloh's first burial was William "Rock" Martin's son.  Where the Mud Creek Road turns on the lower right of the map is where my great grandfather, Isaiah Thomas Hillis built after the Civil War about 1868 and lived till his death 1916.  The house is still there and lived in today.  The first black bit after the bend indicates the house. North on the red road is East Side Elementary School, Campaign and Sparta.  South is McMinnville.

Right where Mud Creek Road intersects is a historical marker:  2E  36 Forrest's Bivouac, July 11, 1862
Crossing Tennessee River on July 9, Forrest’s brigade marched here in two columns, where he received reinforcements of four companies.  His force bivouacked in this vicinity; the following morning it marched toward Murfreesboro, where the Federal garrison was attacked, its commander Gen. T.T. Crittenden captured with about 1200 prisoners, plus a quantity of stores and munitions.

[This marker is located on Highway 139 (also now called the Old Sparta Road, which was formerly US 70 S) at Mud Creek.]
 http://www.usgennet.org/usa/tn/county/warren/hm-a-histmarks.html

While bivouacking there, they accidently burnt a hole in the floor of the Shiloh Church.  This is documented somewhere.

We have Miller and Pettit ancestors buried here.  Our Hillis ancestors are in  Eureka Cemetery with other of "Rock" Martin descendants.

Shiloh C.P. Cemetery

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