swelled the monotony of the moor right out to the hazy

of the concentration of Bragg's main force at Tullahoma. Indeed,

Card kept me so well posted as to every movement of the enemy, not

only with reference to the troops in my immediate front, but also

throughout his whole army, that General Rosecrans placed the most

unreserved reliance on all his statements, and many times used them

to check and correct the reports brought in by his own scouts.

Slight skirmishes took place frequently during this period, and now

and then heavy demonstrations were made in the neighborhood of