Now we must waste no time in gittin' started, fur God on'y knows what diffikilties we'll meet on the way, an' Rosencrans can't hev the information enny too soon.

Ev'ry minute hit's kep' away from him'll cost many vallerable lives--mebbe help defeat the army." "Tell me quickly, then, what I must do, that I may lose no time in undertaking it." "Well, heah's a plan of the position at sundown of the Rebels.

Hit's drawed out moughty roughly but hit'll show jest whar they all are, an' about the number there is at each place.

Hit begins on the right, which is south of Stone River, with Breckenridge's men; then across the river is Withers, an' Cheatham, an' Cleburne, with McCown's division on the left, an' Wharton's cavalry on the flank.

But the thing o' most importance is thet all day long they've been movin' men round ter ther left, ter fall on our right an' crush hit.