abundant in the region to the south and southwest of Murfreesboro',

so to make good our deficiences in this respect, I employed a brigade

about once a week in the duty of collecting and bringing in forage,

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

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