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they were allowed to return to their breakfast, 

 and their guest was brought under guard to 

 headquarters. 



Being satisfied, after a close examination of 

 the report, that it would be imprudent to re- 

 main so far from our camp, which could be 

 best reached from Trenton by another road, we 

 left a party of observation, and returned to Union 

 City, directing our scout to go to the vicinity 

 of Trenton and bring to our detachment any 

 information he might obtain. Twelve hours af- 

 ter our arrival home, the detachment returned 

 with the news that Faulkner, with a large force, 

 had moved toward Mayfield, Kentucky, and the 

 event proved that every item of the intelligence 

 we had received had been substantially correct. 



In this manner we were enabled to learn pretty 

 definitely the character of any movement of the 

 enemy anywhere in Western Tennessee, and so 

 far as we had opportunity to investigate the 

 reports they generally proved to be essentially 

 true. These two scouts were worth more as a 

 source of information, than would have been two 



