I rose stealthily out of my chair, and from my nest of

however, that his precipitous retreat was due to the pressure on his

left from the Second Iowa, in concert with the front attack of the

Second Michigan, and the demoralization wrought in his rear by Alger,

who had almost entirely accomplished the purpose of his expedition,

though he had failed to come through, or so near that I could hear

the signal agreed upon before leaving Booneville.

After Alger had reached and turned up the Blackland road, the first

thing he came across was the Confederate headquarters; the officers