McLaws, who had shown so much spirit and judgment at Antietam, led on the pike.
Now the fighting increased on both roads.

Batteries faced batteries and cavalry charged.

But Harry felt all the time that these were not supreme efforts.

The opposing force seemed to be merely a curtain before Hooker, and as the Southern army advanced the curtain was drawn steadily back, but it was always there.
One of the encounters rose almost to the dignity of a battle.

A heavy division of Northern regulars drove in all the Southern skirmishers, but Jackson, sending forward a strong force, pushed back the regulars in their turn.