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John D. Billings, The history of the Tenth Massachusetts battery of light artillery in the war of the rebellion, Chapter 15: (search)
ickets were driven in at two points on the Vaughan road, and no indications of any increase of force developed. At 6 A. M. (Aug. 25) he telegraphed his postponement of work on the road to Gen. Meade, and his reason for it—the inferiority of his force—until he became satisfied there was no infantry in his front; but after receiving the reports from the squadrons of cavalry he changed his mind and put Gibbon's Division in motion for work on the road. Just at this juncture word came from Col. Spear, who was holding Malone's Bridge Road where it enters the Halifax Road from the west, and at which point work was to be resumed, that the enemy was advancing on him in force. His expulsion from the crossing soon followed. Gibbon now threw out a skirmish line which developed the fact that the enemy's cavalry was supported by infantry. While the skirmishing was going on here, a part of the enemy's cavalry passed to my left and rear, breaking through Gen. Gregg's picket line then runni