Last night about
four hundred of Roddy's command ventured to the government corral, two miles
from Corinth, capturing a company of the Thirty-ninth Iowa, and drove off about
six hundred mules. Cornyn, with his cavalry, is now in hot pursuit. In the
evening the Seventh's bugle blows, and we are soon in the saddle. We travel
nearly all night on the road leading towards Iuka. The boys become very sleepy,
and it is with difficulty that they remain on their mules.
SOURCE: Daniel Leib Ambrose, History
of the Seventh Regiment Illinois Volunteer Infantry, p. 177-8
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