...re than five hours. But it was evident that they were in large force on both sides of the road, and the signal corps reported heavy masses at the front of the mountain. In answer to a despatch from General Longstreet , I urged him to hurry forward troops to my assistance. General Drayton and Colonel G. T. Anderson came up, I think, about three o'clock, with one thousand nine hundred men, and I felt anxious to be...