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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 23. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), chapter 1.13 (search)
rigade on the right, and there was no sign that the enemy knew we were in the dense swamp or pocoson behind him. Hoke summoned all his brigadiers to the extreme right for consultation, and these, with their staff officers, made a party of about twenty mounted officers. The General concluded to extend his line still further to the right, and, thinking we were not discovered by the enemy, moved by the right flank-all these horsemen in front, with no skirmish line out, but followed by Colonel John N. Whitford's Battalion of Rangers. Suddenly, while the men were knee-deep in water, a Federal regiment rose up out of the bushes and fired into the head of our column. They had discovered us just in time to throw this one regiment forward. Some of our cavalry in search of buttermilk, had strayed off and aroused the foe. But it was too late. This sudden check to Hoke and his generals was startling, and here the Major-General displayed his genius. He did not order his division Forward into