It cannot, it must not be any other way!" Dick remained upborne by a confidence in the future rather than in the present, and throughout the morning he remained with his comrades, under arms, but doing little, save to hear the fitful firing which ran along a front of several miles.

But later in the day a heavy crash came from a ford further up the stream.
Under cover of a great artillery fire Stuart's cavalry dashed into the ford, and drove off the infantry and a battery posted to defend it.

Then they triumphantly placed heavy lines of pickets about the ford on the Union side.
It was more than the Union lads could stand.

A heavy mass of infantry, Colonel Winchester's regiment in the very front of it, marched forward to drive back these impertinent horsemen.

They charged with so much impetuosity that Stuart's cavalry abandoned such dangerous ground.