The extreme right of the position held by our army would be, at least, ten miles east, and the Confederate left scarcely nearer.

Beauregard was off in here somewhere,--at Bird's Ferry according to our camp reports the evening previous.

This knowledge prompted me to ask, "Which way is the river ?" "To the right about three miles." "And Bird's Ferry ?" I could not be certain she smiled, yet I thought so.
"Yonder," pointing.

"The river curves to the south, and this road comes down to it at Jonesboro; there is a bridge there.

The ferry is fifteen miles farther up." The apparent innocence of her answer completely disarmed me.