...., logs cut and daubed with black paint to imitate cannon. The natural query was: What will our enemy do next? To ascertain this, reconnoissances were undertaken. The divisions of McCall and W. F. Smith marched out westward on October 19th. McCall, farthest south, bearing off northwesterly, passed through the village of Dranesville, and finding no enemy kept on five or six miles beyond toward Lees...