Tuesday eve:  Well the order came this afternoon to march to morrow at 1 P.M.  We commenced taking down camp & have sent a part of our equipage over to the station to be sent down on the cars, I think we will go direct to Memphis & will reach there in five or six days.  We hear nothing definite from Hood's operations, but it is rumored that he is playing mischief generally,  One of our men left Memphis four days ago, he says that a part of Hoods forces were within 25 miles of there at that time & that all the Cavelry at that place were out skirmishing with his advance.  There was great excitement.  Our Cavelry can hold him in check until reinforcements reach there & the force we have out at Nashville & other points will come up in his rear.  Boat loads of Soldiers were hurrying up the river to Memphis.  He may run a reckless & mad career for a while, but will most certainly meet the same defeat that Price did in Mo.  The Rebels are growing more desperate, it will only hurry on their final overthrow.  A few nights since the Gurrillas who infest this miserable Country chained a yoke of oxen on a bridge leading across a Cypress swamp five miles this side of Little Rock, the chains (Log chains) were put around the rails, so when the engine came rushing on the poor helpless oxen, the driving wheels Jumped over the Logchains & off the track.  The Engine fell through the bridge, the tender & carrs pitched off the track which was on an embankment of 8 - 10 feet some went on one side & some on the other, I was a general smash up two or the soldiers wer killed, several wounded, one poor woman had both he legs broken.  I suppose the wretches who did it were near
