CHAPTER X.
BATTLE OF BRANDY STATION (FLEETWOOD).
The 8th of June was a day of preparation on both sides.

Pleasonton was engaged in collecting his troops and getting everything in readiness to beat up the enemy's quarters the next morning, and Stuart was preparing to cross for the purpose of either making a raid on the railroad, as Pleasonton states, or to take up a position to guard the right flank of the invading force as it passed by our army.

Major McClellan, Stuart's adjutant-general, asserts the latter.

Pleasonton's information was founded on captured despatches, and on interviews held by some of our officers with the Confederates under a flag of truce.
The four batteries of Jones' cavalry brigade moved down near the river opposite Beverly Ford on the 7th, to cover the proposed crossing.

They were imperfectly supported by the remainder of Stuart's force.