LYMAN: We were up and off betimes, after the Rebels. The morning, at first threatening, was presently fine, with a gentle N.W. wind. The 5th Corps marched on Groveton, on the Warrenton pike; the 2d moved to Milford, the 3d to Bristoe; the 1st to Haymarket & the 6th to Gainesville. For our part, we proceeded to Groveton, some 8 miles, and pitched camp in a field, just south of the road. This so-called pike is a made road, once very likely good, but now consisting of holes & gullies of hard gravel; still, the waggons got briskly on, along it and there was room enough for the infantry. The land is somewhat regularly hilly, with much good, open, field; and extensive groves, or patches, of large trees; a really good country. There are frequent “runs” of which the first is the stream called Cub Run, which, after the rain of last night, was up to the horses bellies, and perhaps 40 feet wide. The classic Bull Run is beyond this, & a larger stream, running through a sandstone bed, some 30 feet below the road. ... Beyond this lies the battlefield, among the woods & the cultivated ridges. A Lieut. Berlin is with me temporarily; having come here with a cavalry [regiment] & wishing to join Gen. Hunt’s staff, as an artillerist. He is a Swede. ... This afternoon Kilpatrick ran into a hornets’ nest of cavalry, near Buckland Mills in the front, and came near getting used up, but escaped with a loss of 100 or 200 men. He is a brave, vigorous man, but apparently deficient in judgment, a fault in which his two Brigadiers, Davies & Custer do not much help him.
Posted on: Sun, 20 Oct 2013 21:03:46 +0000
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