...e. I here sent out ten companies of skirmishers, who penetrated to Ballard's and Nixley's field, where the enemy were in force and throwing up works of defence. In the afternoon, my brigade, with Generals Wright 's and Perry's, were moved near the United States Ford, where I sent out the Nineteenth and Twelfth regiments and drove in the enemy's skirmishers. The next day, Monday, the fourth, my command was m...