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Their camp was in the edge of a wood, near the banks of the Rowanty; and having exchanged greetings with my old comrades of the various batteries, and the gallant Colonel Chew, their chieftain, I repaired to Will Davenant's head-quarters. These consisted of a breadth of canvass, stretched beneath a tree in the field in front of which burned a fire.
All things go nothing lingers but those days on the Rowanty, amid the sunset gilded pines, come back with all their tints, and are fadeless in my memory. Going back thus in thought, to that winter of 1864, I recall the friendly faces of Katy, and all my old comrades I hear their laughter again, touch their brave hands once more, and salute them, wishing them long life and happiness. "Farewell!"
Mohun declared that he would remain an hour longer and having promised a visit soon, at his camp on the Rowanty, I mounted my horse, and set out, through the darkness, for Petersburg. Following the White Oak road, I passed Hatcher's Run at Burgess's mill, and went on over the Boydton road, reflecting upon the scene I had just left.
Before dawn, the masses of blue infantry began to move westward across the Rowanty, laying down bridges over the watercourses, as the columns passed on; and on the night of the same day, the corps of Humphreys and Warren were near Dinwiddie Court-House with their extreme right guarded, by Sheridan's cavalry. Such was the work of Wednesday. The great moment had evidently arrived.
Gradually moving thus, from the Jerusalem plank road to the Weldon railroad, from the Weldon railroad to the Squirrel Level road, from the Squirrel Level road toward the Boydton road, beyond which was the White Oak road, Grant came, toward the end of October, to the banks of the Rowanty.
It was a relief to be back in the army; to see brave faces and smiles around me, instead of gloomy eyes and careworn cheeks, as in the city. I passed along the Boydton road almost gayly; crossed the Rowanty at Burgess's, and went on by General Lee's powerful works covering the White Oak road, beyond.
And where does she live?" "On the Halifax road, some miles from the Rowanty." "In the lines of the enemy, then?" "Something like it." "Humph!" "Don't disturb yourself about that, Surry. I have sent out a scouting party who are clearing the country. Their pickets are back to Reams's by this time, and there is little danger." "At all events, we'll share any, Mohun. Forward!"
The enemy were already falling back from their adventurous attempt to seize the Southside road. In the morning they had retired across the Rowanty, and disappeared. So ended that heavy blow at Lee's great war-artery. I was again back at the "Cedars," after the rapid and shifting scenes which I have endeavored to place before the reader.
"Indeed you must!" she said, looking at me with the most fascinating smile, "for you know you are one of my old friends now, and must not neglect me. I am at my aunt's, Mrs. Hall, uncle brought me a month ago from Buckland; but in the morning I shall go down to a cousin's in Dinwiddie." "In Dinwiddie, Miss Katy?" "Yes, near the Rowanty. My cousin, Mr. Dare, has come for me."
Merritt left Custer at Malon's crossing of Rowanty Creek to care for the trains containing our subsistence and the reserve ammunition, these being stuck in the mire at, intervals all the way back to the Jerusalem plank-road; and to make any headway at all with the trains, Custer's men often had to unload the wagons and lift them out of the boggy places.
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