...creek, a considerable stream both deep and wide. A reconnoisance made by General Ransom, Colonel Aylett, and myself, showed an open plain, varying from a mile to two miles in breadth, Teaching to Brice 's creek — this very deep, and about eighty yards wide, with marshy banks, the timber upon which had been cut down. A temporary bridge; on the east bank a block-house and breast-works, behind ...