The enemy worked hard all night on their abatis and intrenchments, and in the morning we found a ditch and parapet running clear across the point on which the post was situated.
This point was cut by a road from the back country, across which was a heavy earthwork and a battery.

This road was at the extremity of our left.

General McClernand kept his head-quarters on his boat, the Tigress.

He came up in the morning to a place in the woods in our rear.

One of his staff, a cavalry-officer, climbed a tree to report movements; but from that point there was very little to be seen.