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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 36. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), chapter 1.27 (search)
g a stone wall on its left or lower side and an abroupt bank on its upper side, both increasing in heighth as the road goes down the hill, until it reaches the height of thirty feet, where the stone bridge and pike leave the hill at a right angle, crosses over the rough, rocky ravine, with its swift stream, along the base of the stone wall. On the east side, steep and partly wooded, is a narrow strip of cleared land, a country road, and the North Branch of the Shenandoah River. About April 20th, Lieutenant Philpot reported to us, his company having gone with the regiment. Lieutenant Dorsey, Company B, White's Battalion, of twenty-one men, having been off on detached service, reported to us. On April 22d the picket on the pike reported the enemy advancing in force. The major called in the men from the nearest posts and with the reserve moved from camp out on to the pike, where we met thirty or more members of the First Maryland Confederate Regiment, brave men, who volunteere