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house of one
Perkinson.
Near by were several hundred Rebel prisoners, looking pretty gaunt, for we had nothing to give, and but little food for our own troops.
I think that we have been obliged to give mule meat to some of our prisoners, during this campaign, to keep them alive till they could get to supplies; and some of our own men have gone very hungry, because, in the haste of pursuit, they marched straight away from the waggons. . . . At 1.30 we found
General Sheridan at the house, which was perhaps a mile south of
Jetersville.
Along the front was the 5th Corps, strongly entrenched, while the cavalry covered the flanks.
A little before three,
Sheridan rode off to the left, to help in
Davies whom the enemy's infantry was trying to cut off. Before this, at two, the head of the 2d
