...by a given time, Gen. Burnside having given positive orders in regard to the length of time he was to be absent. Our course was in a northerly direction from Elizabeth City, on the direct road to Norfolk . As I said before, we had given up all hopes of overhauling the enemy, after learning that he had succeeded in getting ahead of us; but this mishap, however, did not cause Gen. Reno to slacken his ...