noon
On reaching this last divide , some one sighted a herd about five or six miles to the eastward and nearly parallel with us . As they were three or four miles beyond the trail , we could easily see that they were grazing along like ourselves , and Forrest was appealed to to know if it was the Millet herd . He said not , and pointed out to the northeast about the location of the Millet cattle , probably five miles in advance of the stranger on our right . When we overtook our wagon at noon , McCann , who had never left the trail , reported having seen the herd . They looked to him like heavy beef cattle , and had two yoke of oxen to their chuck wagon , which served further to proclaim them as strangers . Neither Priest nor Flood returned during the noon hour , and when the herd refused to lie down and rest longer , we grazed them forward till the fringe of timber which grew along the stream loomed up not a mile distant in our front . From the course we were traveling , we would strike the creek several miles above the regular crossing , and as Forrest reported that Millet was holding below the old crossing on a small rivulet , all we could do was to hold our wagon in the rear , and await the return of our men out on scout for a ford .