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Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 6. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 73 (search)
he reconnoissance, and then went forward to join the force in advance. Lieut.-Colonel McClelland had already deployed four companies of the Twenty-Fifth and Eighth as skirmishers in advance, on each side of the road, and these had engaged in a brisk running fight with the enemy, who were also thrown out as skirmishers. The rebels retreated, abandoning their guns, and even some of their clothing in their hasty flight. I directed the battery to move up the road behind the infantry. Captain Pease, of Gen. I)avis's staff had meantime joined the command with a small force of cavalry, and was doing valuable service in skirmishing to the right and front. The whole command then moved forward, the skirmishers keeping up a brisk fire, until we were about five miles beyond Brentville, when a considerable body of the enemy was seen in the road about a mile distant. I had the battery immediately placed in position in the road, and fired several rounds at them. The enemy scattered and