...his entrenched position. The column was at once deployed, skirmishers thrown forward and engaged. The position at Howlett's house was seized after dark; the two twenty-pound Parrott's captured at Drewry's Bluff were put in position, and manned by infantry from Hagood's brigade. The James, running southerly from Richmond, encounters at Dutch Gap a considerable ridge, which it passes by a detour of perhaps ...