sending out sometimes as many as a hundred and fifty wagons to haul

the grain which my scouts had previously located. In nearly every

one of these expeditions the enemy was encountered, and the wagons

were usually loaded while the skirmishers kept up a running fire,

Often there would occur a respectable brush, with the loss on each

side of a number of killed and wounded. The officer in direct

command always reported to me personally whatever had happened during

the time he was out--the result of his reconnoissance, so to speak,

(Editor：bird)