We had guard, drill duty, and dress parades daily at Chattanooga. On March 28 we heard of General Stonewall Jackson’s victory at Kernstown. We left Chattanooga April 1 at 8 A.M., and arrived at Bridgeport at 11 A.M. and went into camp near the railroad bridge; in the meantime the left wing of the regiment went forward to Corinth. On April 4 we were ordered to cook three days’ rations and to leave at 9 A.M. We boarded the train, and the order was countermanded and we disembarked and remained in camp till April 5, when ten box cars were backed up and we loaded at 7 A.M. These cars had been hauling bulk bacon, and they were very greasy. We slipped and slid, but could not slide very far, as we were packed in closely. We reached Stevenson at 8 A.M., and remained until 1:30 P.M., April 6, when the news reached us of the battle of Shiloh and the death of General Albert Sidney Johnston. We did not reach Corinth until Monday, April 7, at 10 A.M. We saw a large number of Federal prisoners, and the old Tishomingo Hotel was turned into a hospital and filled with our wounded. General Johnston’s body had arrived, and was in a residence near by. On the morning of April 8 we were ordered to cook five days’ rations, and on the morning of the 9th we left Corinth for the Shiloh battlefield. We met a large number of wagons and all kinds of conveyances carrying our wounded to Corinth. We marched over a dirt road, through swamps and water, reaching General Breckinridge at sundown, and slept in some vacant tents that were left by the enemy. Reveille sounded early on the morning of April 10, and we were soon under arms. We marched by General Breckinridge’s headquarters, were drawn up in line of battle all day, and went back to our quarters in the evening. On Friday, April 11, it rained nearly all day, and we stayed in our tents until 5 P.M., when we were called out in the rain, but soon afterwards ordered back. In camp all day April 12, and General Forrest’s cavalry scouts said that there was no sign of the Federals south of where Shiloh was fought, but that they were under cover of the gunboats at Pittsburg Landing. We left Shiloh Sunday, April 13, on our way to Corinth, and after getting lost in the woods several times reached the camp at twelve o’clock Monday, April 14, where we found the left wing of the regiment, and listened to the boys, who gave us a graphic picture of the fight and regretted that we were not with them. We expected the next battle at Corinth, and for days and weeks worked on the fortifications and drank water the color of soapsuds. One had no trouble to get water at Corinth: all you had to do was to shovel out a few spadefuls of earth, and the hole would soon fill with water.