...ts of reports, just as we do now. For weeks old women had reported that Beauregard was coming, sometimes with 100,000, sometimes with 800,000, when, in fact, he did not leave Corinth until after even Colonel Worthington had been alarmed for safety. Sherman says, further on, that, after the reconnaissance on Friday afternoon- We knew that we had the elements of an army in our front, but did not know its st...