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William Swinton, Campaigns of the Army of the Potomac, chapter 10 (search)
e rear of Meade's column, which was covered by the cavalry under Pleasonton. Buford's division of troopers had crossed the Rapidan at Germanna Ford on the night of the 10th, after the Confederates had begun their movement, but was met on the morning of the 11th by Fitz Hugh Lee's horsemen; whereupon Buford, falling back over the Rapidan, united at Brandy Station with Pleasonton's main body of cavalry, and then followed the army across the Rappahannock. On the following morning, Monday, October 12th, Lee advanced from Culpepper; but finding that Meade had been too quick for him, and that his first turning movement had failed, owing to the rapid retreat of his opponent, he determined, instead of following up Meade by the direct line of his retreat, to make a new flank movement by routes to the west, with the design, as he says in his report, of reaching the Orange and Alexandria railroad north of the Rappahannock, and interrupting the retreat of the enemy. This operation had very