...ore we could reach terra firma, and meet our enemy on any thing like fair terms. Steele, in his progress, followed substantially an old levee back from the Yazoo to the foot of the hills north of Thompson's Lake , but found that, in order to reach the hard land, he would have to cross a long corduroy cause-way, with a battery enfilading it, others cross-firing it, with a similar line of rifle pits and trench...