CHAPTER LIV.
MOVEMENT BY THE LEFT FLANK--BATTLE OF NORTH ANNA--AN INCIDENT OF THE MARCH--MOVING ON RICHMOND--SOUTH OF THE PAMUNKEY--POSITION OF THE NATIONAL ARMY.
We were now to operate in a different country from any we had before seen in Virginia.

The roads were wide and good, and the country well cultivated.

No men were seen except those bearing arms, even the black man having been sent away.

The country, however, was new to us, and we had neither guides nor maps to tell us where the roads were, or where they led to.

Engineer and staff officers were put to the dangerous duty of supplying the place of both maps and guides.