Harry and Dalton heard shrapnel whizzing over their heads.

After the first involuntary shiver they regained the calm of youthful veterans and rode on in silence.
But the fire of the Northern artillery was damaging, even at great range.

Shells and shrapnel sprayed showers of steel over the column.
Men were killed and others wounded.

As they could not turn back to fight those troublesome cannon, the column turned farther away and forced a road through a new path.

It seemed now that Jackson's march was discovered and that the whole Northern army might press in between him and Lee.