This also was filled with back-water from the river.

The fort stood on high ground, some of it as much as a hundred feet above the Cumberland.

Strong protection to the heavy guns in the water batteries had been obtained by cutting away places for them in the bluff.

To the west there was a line of rifle pits some two miles back from the river at the farthest point.

This line ran generally along the crest of high ground, but in one place crossed a ravine which opens into the river between the village and the fort.