...cting a junction with the Seventy-seventh, cutting his way out; and escaping with most of his force. He proposed to take their left flank in the rear, with a charge of the small cavalry force under Major McCauleigh , and follow it up with all his available infantry, some four hundred men. Riding across the field to give the requisite order to Major McCauleigh, he was exposed to a dreadful cross-fire from the ene...