...s, about 40 on duty, and Captain Villepigue's battery of four guns. At the hour referred to I called a council of officers and we determined to evacuate Baldwin and move by way of Brandy branch and Lang 's ferry, on the Big St. Mary's, to this position on the west side of the south prong of that river. The whole command moved from Baldwin at 3 o'clock a. m. on the 26th, and crossed Brandy branch ...