... I said to him: That is covered by the enemy's line of fortifications. He said: They had all been abandoned, General, I saw as I came by them. Thereupon I called a couple of orderlies and said: DeKay , ride with me to Fort Harrison by the shortest route. We rode out until we got on the Varina road, and there I could see plainly at a distance of some three or four hundred yards the line of redou...