We started at half-past five, on the morning of the 28th.

The difficulties were so great that we only moved at the rate of a mile an hour.

At two in the morning we started again, and marched about ten miles; in the course of which we were occasionally fired at by the enemy.

The moon rose at eleven, and the advance was continued.
"The resistance now became severe.

The telegraph wires had been cut, taken down from the poles, and twisted about the road; and trees had also been felled across it.