...of McCulloch and McIntosh. At night a friend and myself, within five miles of Bentonville, rose and started for the scene of the impending battle. About nine or ten miles up Sugar Creek, north of Bentonville , I stopped to get a drink of water, my friend going on ahead. In a few minutes the Federal scouts, and then one of their regiments, galloped into the road, and occupied it just behind my friend and...