four o'clock Sunday morning
But on the 18th the rain ceased ; and on the next day , which was Saturday , General Schoepf 's brigade , a portion of which had been sent forward before , arrived towards night , and was placed in position . That evening Captain Woodbine , who had been with the general in command all day , called upon Major Lyon , and directed him to have his squadron , with its volunteer riflemen , in column on the Millersville Road at daylight in the morning of Sunday , for a reconnaissance in the direction of the enemy 's intrenched camp at Beech Grove . The major reported that the rifle volunteers had been re-enforced to fifty-six men by the efforts of Butters the jailer . The commander of the squadron promptly issued his orders to his officers to have his men ready to move at four o'clock Sunday morning . The details of the battle of Mill Springs , as it was generally called when the accounts of it were published at the time , or , more properly , Logan 's Cross Roads , as General Thomas called it in his report to the chief of staff of the Department of the Ohio , are too voluminous to be given at length ; and they have been published so many times in various works that it is unnecessary to repeat them . Only such parts as relate to the career of the `` lieutenant at eighteen '' will be introduced , though incidentally some of the movements of the army will be included . The general in his report says : `` I reached Logan 's Cross Roads , about ten miles north of the intrenched camp of the enemy , on the Cumberland River , on the 17th instant . ''