In the advance on the flank
Warren was encountered only by
Munford, with his two small brigades of cavalry, that he drove back until he had room to deploy in the line upon the flank and rear of
Pickett's division.
He then quickly moved upon it, doubled it up, and drove it from the field in the utmost confusion towards the west, and captured the greater part of the artillery and many prisoners.
Warren then arranged his corps so as to preclude the possibility of these forces reuniting with the body of the army.
It had happened that
Fitz Lee, during the day, notified
Lieutenant-General R. H. Anderson, who was at Burgess' Mill with
Johnson's division, that the Fifth Corps was with
Sheridan, and that
Sheridan, now with overwhelming force, was pressing upon him.
Anderson, in person, with
Wise's and
Gracie's brigades, moved to his relief, but as
Warren had
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already crossed the
White Oak road, the direct line of communication between the two places, and
Humphreys (see his report) had sent
Miles' division around on that road to confront the forces at Burgess' Mill,
Anderson made a circuit around Miles and
Warren, reached the neighborhood after
Fitz Lee and
Pickett had been routed, and without affording any assistance whatever added those brigades to the routed and disorganized, and left the right wing of
Lee's army with almost no infantry and without any cavalry.
