To stand by the roadside and witness the passage of General Sigel's train, was equal to a visit to Barnum's Museum, and proved an unfailing source of mirth.
[Illustration: GENERAL SIGEL'S TRANSPORTATION IN THE MISSOURI CAMPAIGN.] Falstaff's train (if he had one) could not have been more picturesque.
Even the Missourians, accustomed as they were to sorry sights, laughed heartily at the spectacle presented by Sigel's transportation.

The Secessionists made several wrong deductions from the sad appearance of that train.

Some of them predicted that the division with _such_ a train would prove to be of little value in battle.

Never were men more completely deceived.

The division marched rapidly, and, on a subsequent campaign, evinced its ability to fight.
One after another, the divisions of Fremont's army moved in chase of the Rebels; a pursuit in which the pursued had a start of seventy-five miles, and a clear road before them.