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the enemy from his trains in the rear. Hill's corps had reached Bristoe about simultaneously with Warren — in fact, had just got ahead of him sufficiently to form a line of battle, which he did perpendicular to the railroad. The battle of Bristoe. The position was the most perilous one in which a column can be placed — marching by the flank and met by the enemy in line of battle. Gen. Warren was equal to the emergency. The troops were brought up at a run — the first division (Caldwell's) having come up thus for a mile and a half, laden with eight days rations. The troops which had been marching on the left of the railroad were brought quickly over to the right, and Gen. Warren, seeing that the enemy had neglected to occupy the cut and embankment of the railroad, on the instant jumped his men unseen, into it. More prudence on the part of the rebel commander, or less sagacity on the part of the Union commander, would have proved the destruction of that corps. The r<