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Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 3. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.), Book IV:—Third winter. (search)
tween two untimbered declivities. A road parallel to the right crest leads from Greenwich to Brentsville, and cuts the railroad at the station. About fourteen hundred yards before reaching that po after his flankers encounter Cook's extreme right on the south of the road from Greenwich to Brentsville. The enemy is approaching the railroad; there is not a moment to lose to prevent his barringlines, the slopes of the plateau between the small wood which marks its crest and the road to Brentsville, which on his left descends to Bristoe Station: he thus hopes to separate the Unionists from left bank of Bull Run, except the trains guarded by Buford, which have not been able to reach Brentsville, and are thus greatly exposed. This time Meade has resolved to await his adversary in the pot Yates' Ford, A brisk attack by Gordon's brigade of cavalry, coming from the direction of Brentsville, was made south of Yates' Ford upon the rear-guard, composed of the Third Pennsylvania cavalr