General Sigel was the first to receive orders to march his division from Tipton to Warsaw, and he was very prompt to obey.

While other division commanders were waiting for their transportation to arrive from St.Louis, Sigel scoured the country and gathered up every thing with wheels.

His train was the most motley collection of vehicles it has ever been my lot to witness.
There were old wagons that made the journey from Tennessee to Missouri thirty years before, farm wagons and carts of every description, family carriages, spring wagons, stage-coaches, drays, and hay-carts.
In fact, every thing that could carry a load was taken along.

Even pack-saddles were not neglected.

Horses, mules, jacks, oxen, and sometimes cows, formed the motive power.