By the end of Aril, the several armies seemed to be ready, and the general forward movement on Corinth began.

My division was on the extreme right of the right wing, and marched out by the "White House," leaving Monterey or Pea Ridge to the south.

Crossing Lick Creek, we came into the main road about a mile south of Monterey, where we turned square to the right, and came into the Purdy road, near "Elams." Thence we followed the Purdy road to Corinth, my skirmishers reaching at all times the Mobile & Ohio Railroad.

Of course our marches were governed by the main centre, which followed the direct road from Pittsburg Landing to Corinth; and this movement was provokingly slow.

We fortified almost every camp at night, though we had encountered no serious opposition, except from cavalry, which gave ground easily as we advanced.