To Mrs. Lyon
Camp eight miles from Corinth, May 5, 1862.— Company K was immediately sent out three miles toward Corinth as grand guard, or outpost picket. It rained terribly all the afternoon and nearly all night, and we were out in the whole of it. The next day coming into camp we had to wade a slough filled with water by the rain. I got in up to my neck, to the infinite amusement of the boys. I did not take cold and feel none the worse for it.
The rebel cavalry were in sight of our picket lines, and there is skirmishing all along the lines every day. The opinion is that the rebels will retreat from Corinth without a fight. When we were out the other night we could hear their bands and drum corps play, and also the whistle of their locomotives, distinctly. There is so much woods here that we can not see far ahead.
