...ommanding. In continuation, I then said: To have communicated in advance, under the circumstances, would have endangered my official integrity, and, as is apparent, was entirely unnecessary. General Bragg , in his report of the battle of Shiloh, dated April 30, 1862, states that the road to Monterey, eleven miles, was found very bad, requiring us until eleven o'clock on the 4th to concentrate at that p...