“He has not hitherto left his cousin’s plantations

enable me to make rough maps that could be readily understood, and

which would be suitable to replace the erroneous skeleton outlines of

northern Mississippi, with which at this time we were scantily

furnished; so as soon as possible I compiled for the use of myself

and my regimental commanders an information map of the surrounding

country. This map exhibited such details as country roads, streams,

farmhouses, fields, woods, and swamps, and such other topographical

features as would be useful. I must confess that my crude sketch did