While preparations for the move were going on I felt quite comfortable; but when we got on the road and found every house deserted I was anything but easy.

In the twenty-five miles we had to march we did not see a person, old or young, male or female, except two horsemen who were on a road that crossed ours.

As soon as they saw us they decamped as fast as their horses could carry them.

I kept my men in the ranks and forbade their entering any of the deserted houses or taking anything from them.

We halted at night on the road and proceeded the next morning at an early hour.
Harris had been encamped in a creek bottom for the sake of being near water.