The remainder, with its colonel, will be here to-morrow, and, report says, Major-General Hunter.

Now my hope is that we may go to some point higher up the river, which we can hold for ourselves.

There are two other points [Magnolia and Pilatka], which, in themselves, are as favorable as this, and, for getting recruits, better.

So I shall hope to be allowed to go.

To take posts, and then let white troops garrison them,--that is my programme.
"What makes the thing more puzzling is, that the Eighth Maine has only brought ten days' rations, so that they evidently are not to stay here; and yet where they go, or why they come, is a puzzle.