... cannon. They would be enabled to assail us with a raking fire, which could scarcely fail to do us much damage. On the slope of the ridge, and near the road, which, running over it, leads on to Dalton , is a white frame-house. Behind this the rebels had, during the night, concealed a battery; and just as our column had all passed into the open ground, they ran their cannon out from behind the hou...