...me the gullies and the worse became the roads, while the thick woods on all sides afforded a fine shelter for the enemy. Up to the 8th of April it had rained heavily. General Franklin, who left Grand Ecore on the 6th, marched but seventeen miles on that and eighteen miles on the succeeding day, being much impeded by his large wagon train; and it seems General Lee was so far in advance that he could not...