The water was brackish and the banks were fringed with timber.

Here the whole army concentrated before attempting to cross.

The army was not accompanied by a pontoon train, and at that time the troops were not instructed in bridge building.

To add to the embarrassment of the situation, the army was here, for the first time, threatened with opposition.

Buglers, concealed from our view by the brush on the opposite side, sounded the "assembly," and other military calls.