... The position of the Union troops then was: Smith on the right, and Hooker on the left, confronting the enemy's works, the latter having the heaviest obstacle before him, and the divisions of Kearny, Casey , and Couch struggling on toward the front, over crowded, muddy roads. General Sumner says in his report: I had a careful reconnoissance made on the left of the enemy's works, on the morning of...