ires. They look like flashy desperadoes.

Started on at 1 P. M. Ran very fast thirty-seven miles from Memphis.
Stockades and block houses are to be seen all along the line, some large
enough to hold a regiment, but most of them are left vacant.

We passed through Moscow without stopping. The place looks decidedly
better than it did when we were here before, all the dirty wood-colored
houses having been burned down and the whole policed nicely.

Halted at La Grange a few minutes. This is the pleasantest place on the
whole line, very elegant mansions here, several stores running and a
large body of troops.

Grand Junction--forty-three miles from Memphis and forty-five miles
from here to Corinth. The Mississippi Central crosses here. The last ten
miles of the R. R. were very crooked. The three trains were coupled
together part of the way, and they crawled like a serpent, ran very
slow. Our train laid here two hours to steam and oil up, and it was dark
before it started, but when once under headway it endeavored to make up
for lost time, and it plunged into the darkness around curves and
through cuts at a fearful rate in the condition the road was in. The
carriages on the cars were loose, and they flew back and forth and were
in great danger of being thrown off, which would be a fatal catastrophe.

Our next halt was at a small station twenty-nine miles from Corinth
called Porter's Creek. Took wood and water. Talked with a member of the
118th Illinois who were stationed here. He said they had seen no trace
of civilization for six months. All they did was to hunt guerrillas who
were very thick and very wicked.

Pocahontas--fourteen miles from Corinth. We stopped here thirty minutes.
Several buildings to be seen. Tatoo sounded while here. We were now all
fatigued, sleepy, hungry and cold, the rain having fallen all day, and
it was quite chilly. There was no room to lie down and I sat on the
foot-board of the limber and bracing myself, went to sleep, but it was
broken. I dreamt of a warm room and a comfortable bed (tantalizing dream
that). I was next conscious at Corinth, where we halted, but we supposed
we were going right along. I crawled under the caisson and fell asleep
with no covering save my overcoat and poncho. Woke up at midnight
chilled through. Found us still at Corinth and fires lit on the
roadside. I sat up for about half an hour and warmed, when big drops of
rain commenced falling. I sought shelter under a wa