How long I lay there alone I had no means of computing.

orders were issued for an advance upon the enemy with the purpose of

attacking and the hope of destroying him within the limits of the

"blue grass" region, and, failing in that, to drive him from

Kentucky. The army moved October 1, 1862, and my division, now a

part of the Third Corps, commanded by General C. C. Gilbert, marched

directly on Bardstown, where it was thought the enemy would make a

stand, but Bragg's troops retreated toward Perryville, only resisting

sufficiently to enable the forces of General Kirby Smith to be drawn