...n readiness to move at a moment's notice, with three days cooked rations and forty rounds of ammunition in the cartridge boxes. Breckinridge, with his three brigades, was at a little place called Burnsville . He was ordered to move at once to join the main army at Monterey, a cross-roads store. Forrest, with his regiment of cavalry, was to precede Breckinridge. The following morning the place of ...