The General went ahead with the cavalry. The battalion with which I had come from Fort Nâ ⸺ remained in the rearguard. Captain Hlopovâs and Lieutenant Rosenkranzâs battalions retired together.
The Captainâs prophecy was quite correct. No sooner had we entered the narrow thicket which he had mentioned, than on both sides of us we caught glimpses of hillsmen, mounted and on foot, and so near were they that I could distinctly see how some of them ran stooping, rifle in hand, from behind one tree to another.