...eserve of several brigades, ready to pounce upon the enemy as he was attempting to ascend the slope of the range of hills we were then occupying, but nothing of the kind seemed to be there. I found Major-General McDowell with his staff, and around him troops of several different corps, and of all arms, in full retreat. I succeeded in inducing the captain of a battery, the name of which I do not know, to place his p...