Nayland Smith promenaded the room, unceasingly, and presently

knowledge of the section in which we were operating, so as to be

prepared to encounter an enemy already indicating recovery from the

disorganizing effects of his recent retreat.

In the immediate vicinity of Booneville the country was covered with

heavy forests, with here and there clearings or intervening fields

that had been devoted to the cultivation of cotton and corn. The

ground was of a low character, typical of northeastern Mississippi,

and abounded in small creeks that went almost totally dry even in