Guess again." "Well, ten thousand." "That will do for a guess.

Now to-day I shall keep you locked up, and to-morrow you can go back to Marshall." At nightfall Brown went back to the rebel camp, and his report was made in accordance with Garfield's suggestions.
The fact was, that deducting those sick and on garrison duty, Garfield's little army amounted to but fourteen hundred in place of the ten thousand reported to the rebel commander.

This little army was set in motion the next day.

It was a toilsome and discouraging march, over roads knee-deep in mire, and the troops necessarily made but slow progress, being frequently obliged to halt.

Some days they succeeded in making but five or six miles.