...ivilized country, and not merely pass unpunished or unrebuked, but be recorded with conspicuous approval in the pages of a military history. The advance of the enemy's columns across the Catawba, Lynch's Creek , and the Pedee, at Cheraw, though retarded as much as possible by the vigilant skill of our cavalry under Generals Hampton, Butler, and Wheeler, was steady and continuous. General Johnston's hope t...