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od order and rapid style. Our batteries immediately responded to their fire, thus drawing their attention away from us. In a moment the air was perfectly alive with shot and shell. I took advantage of the elevation in their firing to join my command. At this juncture, receiving orders to take the advance of the corps in the direction of Waterloo Bridge, (six miles above Warrenton Springs,) I got my brigade in motion, arriving at the bridge about five o'clock in the afternoon. I placed Dieckman's battery in position on a commanding eminence on the left of the road, and near the bridge, immediately opening fire on a rebel battery across the river, at the same time throwing my skirmishers down near the bridge and along the bank, where they were soon engaging the rebel skirmishers. Thus matters stood when darkness partially put an end to the firing, but the enemy opened on us furiously with small arms several times in the fore part of the night. Next morning, the twenty-fifth, th
od order and rapid style. Our batteries immediately responded to their fire, thus drawing their attention away from us. In a moment the air was perfectly alive with shot and shell. I took advantage of the elevation in their firing to join my command. At this juncture, receiving orders to take the advance of the corps in the direction of Waterloo Bridge, (six miles above Warrenton Springs,) I got my brigade in motion, arriving at the bridge about five o'clock in the afternoon. I placed Dieckman's battery in position on a commanding eminence on the left of the road, and near the bridge, immediately opening fire on a rebel battery across the river, at the same time throwing my skirmishers down near the bridge and along the bank, where they were soon engaging the rebel skirmishers. Thus matters stood when darkness partially put an end to the firing, but the enemy opened on us furiously with small arms several times in the fore part of the night. Next morning, the twenty-fifth, th