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them In line of battle on the bluff. I went back and told him what I had seen. He told me to go back and see if they had changed their position. 1 I went and saw them again, and reported again. This time I thought they had artillery. In a short time they commenced firing. Col. Hunton marched his men to the top of the ridge facing the bluff, ordered them to fire and fall back a few steps, to kneel while they loaded and thus be protected by the rising ground in front of them. From two histories I got out of a library in the Patent Office, I obtained the information that Col. Baker crossed the river about two or two-thirty o’clock found about 1800 men between the bluff and the river; so history on the other side agrees with my statement about the time the battle commenced. For over two hours the 8th Virginia was fighting four or five times its number. The battle closed a little before dark; the 8th Virginia retired to Fort Evans, leaving a picket of fifteen men on the field to guard against surSrise
-attack. About eleven ’clock that night Col. White came to the fort reporting there was a number of the enemy between the bluff and the river. Forty-five men
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