...e left bank, the bridge was destroyed to prevent an attack upon the rear-guard and wagon-train. By nightfall on the fifteenth, the Union army encamped three and one half miles from the village of Whitehall , on the left bank of the river. During the evening of the fifteenth, a battalion of cavalry, with two guns, under command of Major Garrard, was sent to Whitehall to destroy the Neuse River bridge...