... had scattered to seize the rich plunder of the enemy's camps. An unavoidable delay in the morning of an hour in Gordon's movements, for which he was not to blame, the miscarriage of the message to Lomax , the strong position which the enemy held, and the fact that he had a cavalry force which hung upon both flanks, quite as large as Early's infantry, while we had but 1,200 under Rosser, to meet them,...