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My friends had pathetically remonstrated "there was not a single picket on the Rowanty in front of me, there, and I would certainly be captured some day," but I had persisted in stopping there still, on every tour which I made. How to resist the temptation! Disaways was just thirty miles from Petersburg. I always reached its vicinity as night fell, on the dark winter days.
I followed, and we rode back, rapidly, in dead silence, toward the Rowanty. Mohun rode on for more than a mile at full gallop, without uttering a word. Then he turned his head, and said, with a sigh: "Well, what do you think of your new acquaintance, Surry?" "I think she is an impostor." "As to her visions, you mean?" "Yes. Her story of Darke I believe to be true."
Gradually Grant had pushed westward, until his grasp was now very nearly upon the Southside road. Lee had extended his own thin line to still confront him. The White Oak road, beyond the Rowanty, had been defended by heavy works. The hill above Burgess's bristled with batteries. The extreme right of the Confederate line rested in the vicinity of Five Forks. Beyond that it could not be extended.
The benefits derived from this expedition, in the destruction of the Southside and Danville railroads, were considered by General Grant as equivalent for the losses sustained in Wilson's defeat, for the wrecking of the railroads and cars was most complete, occasioning at this, time serious embarrassment to the Confederate Government; but I doubt if all this compensated for the artillery and prisoners that fell into the hands of the enemy in the swamps of Hatcher's Run and Rowanty Creek.
The benefits derived from this expedition, in the destruction of the Southside and Danville railroads, were considered by General Grant as equivalent for the losses sustained in Wilson's defeat, for the wrecking of the railroads and cars was most complete, occasioning at this, time serious embarrassment to the Confederate Government; but I doubt if all this compensated for the artillery and prisoners that fell into the hands of the enemy in the swamps of Hatcher's Run and Rowanty Creek.
While the cavalry fought the blue masses with obstinate courage on the Boydton road, Mahone, that daring soldier, crossed a column of three brigades over the Rowanty, below Burgess's; and suddenly the enemy found themselves attacked in flank and rear. Mahone did not pause.
The bridge a long rough affair had been half destroyed by General Hampton; but we forded near it, pushed our horses through the swamp, amid the heavy tree trunks, felled to form an abatis, and gaining the opposite bank of the Rowanty, rode on rapidly in the direction of Petersburg, that is to say, toward the rear of the Federal army.
I am going to conduct you to a spot where we can talk without interruption, the exact place where the crimes of which I shall speak were committed." And resuming the gallop, Mohun led the way, amid the trailing festoons, through the fallen logs, across the Rowanty. Half an hour afterward we had reached his camp. As the sun began to decline we again mounted our horses.
Fortunately no enemy was found; but time might have been saved by a prompt advance of the skirmishers without waiting for the line. Crossing Rowanty without opposition, we followed the stage-road to its junction with the Quaker road. Up this we marched toward Gravelly Run. The First Division, however, followed the stage-road some distance farther.
"Well, where is the place of meeting where are the terms being arranged?" I said. "At a place called Disaways, on the lower Rowanty!" "Good! I know the road there," I said. And with a laugh, which the general and his gay cavaliers echoed, I touched my gray with the spur, and set out toward the south. I pushed on, having resolved, after finishing my duties, to visit Disaways.
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