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the skirmishers from Gregg's and Branch's brigades of Hill's division who mistook us for the enemy.
Fortunately no damage was done, and I was moving on when I received an order to advance to the front from where I was, and in a few minutes afterwards another to move back by the right flank, as the report of the movement of the enemy around our left flank had proved untrue.
I found that the other brigades of the division had bivouacked near where I had left them, and my own did the same.
The enemy had been driven beyond Bull Run, and was in retreat to Centreville, our pursuit having been arrested by the approaching darkness.
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