Thursday, 19th—We started our drove of cattle early this morning and the brigade broke camp at 8 o’clock and followed. We reached Pulaski at 2 o’clock, a distance of sixteen miles, and went into camp. Our road, rough and rocky, followed a winding creek which I think we had to wade twenty-four times during the day. I was corporal guard last night and having had no sleep, the hard day’s march has almost worn me out.
Good news came from the Eastern army, also from the Cumberland army. The report is that General Grant has had a six days’ fight at Richmond and that the rebels are whipped and on the retreat.
