I will also send in, during the day, the detailed reports of my brigadiers and colonels, and will indorse them with such remarks as I deem proper.
I am, with much respect, your obedient servant, W.T.SHERMAN, Brigadier-General commanding Fifth Division.
HEADQUARTERS FIFTH DIVISION Tuesday, April 8,1862 Sir: With the cavalry placed at my command and two brigades of my fatigued troops, I went this morning out on the Corinth road.

One after another of the abandoned camps of the enemy lined the roads, with hospital flags for their protection; at all we found more or less wounded and dead men.

At the forks of the road I found the head of General T.J.Wood's division of Buell's Army.

I ordered cavalry to examine both roads leading toward Corinth, and found the enemy on both.

Colonel Dickey, of the Fourth Illinois Cavalry, asking for reenforcements, I ordered General Wood to advance the head of his column cautiously on the left-hand road, while I conducted the head of the third brigade of my division up the right-hand road.