...r and six pieces respectively, left Springfield about eight o'clock P. M., marching slowly along until two A. M., when we halted for two hours, at which time Captain Gilbert's company of regulars and Major Osterhaus ' battalion were thrown out as skirmishers on either side of the column, and we moved forward. Shortly after five o'clock a party of rebels, acting as a picket, were seen scattering over the hills...