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cing as far as Brandy Station, while Buford's cavalry drove a small force of the enemy into Culpeper. During the night despatches were received from General Gregg, commanding a cavalry division guarding the upper fords of the Rappahannock and Hazel rivers, that he had been forced back early in the morning from Hazel River, and in the afternoon from Rappahannock, and that the enemy were crossing at Sulphur Springs and Waterloo in heavy force. As it was too late when this intelligence reached meHazel River, and in the afternoon from Rappahannock, and that the enemy were crossing at Sulphur Springs and Waterloo in heavy force. As it was too late when this intelligence reached me to attempt to gain Warrenton in advance of the enemy, the army on the thirteenth was withdrawn to Auburn and Catlett's Station, and on the fourteenth to Centreville. This retrograde movement was effected without molestation from the enemy till the fourteenth, on.which day he skirmished at Auburn with the Second corps, Major-General Warren, and on the afternoon of that day attacked General Warren at Bristol Station. The attack was most handsomely repulsed by General Warren, who captured five
nt of the enemy in the vicinity of Beverly's Ford, and the Orange and Alexandria Railroad bridge, then held by Jackson, in order to mask the movement of the latter, who was instructed to ascend the river. On the twenty-second, Jackson crossed Hazel River at Welford's Mill, and proceeded up the Rappahannock, leaving Trimble's brigade near Freeman's Ford to protect his trains. In the afternoon, Longstreet sent General Hood with his own and Whiting's brigade, under Colonel Law, to relieve Trimblthe river rendering the lower fords impassable, enabled the enemy to concentrate his main body opposite General Jackson, and on the twenty-fourth, Longstreet was ordered to proceed to his support. Although retarded by the swollen condition of Hazel River and other tributaries of the Rappahannock, he reached Jeffersonton in the afternoon. General Jackson's command lay between that place and the Springs ford, and a warm cannonade was progressing between the batteries of A. P. Hill's division an
nuing to march up the Rappahannock, crossed Hazel River, and bivouacked at Jeffersonton. On the tw, General Ewell in the advance, and crossed Hazel River, one of its tributaries, at Wellford's Milleral actions commencing with the affairs of Hazel River, on the twenty-second, and Bristoe and Manahe left, Lawton's brigade leading, crossing Hazel River at a mill, and then moving in the directionlight loss. In moving to the left across Hazel River, General Trimble, with his brigade, was lefeft in the direction of Farley Ford, on the Hazel River, and then to follow with my division. I wenty-second August, 1862, in the battle of Hazel River. About ten o'clock A. M. that day, I was ligade about a mile distant from the ford on Hazel River, near Wellford's Mill, where the army cross left, and proceeded up the river, crossing Hazel River at Wellford, and that night reached a pointelds to Welford's Mill, where they crossed Eastham River, thence to Freeman's Ford, but finding thi[3 more...]