... nearest skirmishers and to dislodge his sharpshooters from their cover. This was effected without much difficulty. A line of skirmishers, extending along the entire front of the woods in rear of Dr. Gaines 's house, discovered to me the position in which the enemy had resolved to offer battle. Of this position, about eleven o'clock, I attempted a reconnoissance. I deployed my entire brigade, under a...