have to put up with it in the future. After nightfall our

night of the 27th of May at 12 o'clock, and proceed by a circuitous

route through Iuka, Miss., to Booneville, a station on the Mobile and

Ohio Railroad, about twenty-two miles below Corinth, and accomplish

all it could in the way of destroying the enemy's supplies and

cutting his railroad communications.

The weather in that climate was already warm, guides unobtainable,

and both men and horses suffered much discomfort from the heat, and

fatigue from the many delays growing out of the fact that we were in