| 1 | Stone Bridge. | 8 | Porter’s and Burnside’s brigades. |
| 2 | Sudley Springs. | 9 | Sherman’s and Keyes’s brigades. |
| 3 | Toll-gate kept by Mr. Mathey. | 10 | Griffin’s and Rickett’s batteries. |
| 4 | Mr. Dogan’s house. | 11 | Rebel reinforcements which fired |
| 5 | Mrs. Henry’s. | upon Griffin. | |
| 6 | Mr. Lewis’s. | 14 | Position of Rebel army when the |
| 7 | Wilcox’s, Howard’s, and Franklin’s | Union line gave way. | |
| brigades. | 13 | Ridge where the battle began. |
“Where did you find the water?”
“Over there in the woods, in the rear of Schenck’s brigade.”
I passed the brigade. Ayers’s and Carlisle’s batteries were there. I found the spring beyond a little hillock. While drinking, there was sudden confusion in Schenck’s brigade. There was loud talking, cannon and musketry firing, and a sudden trampling of horses. A squadron of Rebel cavalry swept past within a few rods of the spring, charging upon Schenck’s brigade. The panic tide had come rolling to the rear. Ayers lashed his horses to a gallop, to reach Cub Run bridge. He succeeded in crossing it. He came into position to open upon the Rebels and to check their pursuit. The road was blocked with wagons. Frightened teamsters cut their horses loose and rode away. Soldiers, officers, and civilians fled towards Centreville, frightened at they knew not what. Blenker’s brigade was thrown forward from Centreville to the bridge, and the rout was stopped. The Rebels were too much exhausted, too much amazed at the sudden and unaccountable breaking and fleeing of McDowell’s army, to improve the advantage. They followed to Cub Run bridge, but a few cannon and musket shots sent them back to the Stone Bridge.
But at Blackburn’s Ford General Jones crossed the stream to attack the retreating troops. General Davies, with four regiments and Hunt’s battery, occupied the crest of a hill looking down towards the ford. The Rebels marched through the woods upon the bank of the stream, wound along the hillside, filed through a farm-yard and halted in a hollow within a quarter of a mile of General Davies’s guns.
Fight at Blackburn’s Ford, July 21, 1863.
| 1 | Blackburn’s Ford. | 4 | Davies’s brigade and batteries. |
| 2 | Mitchell’s Ford. | 5 | Richardson’s brigade. |
| 3 | Rebel troops. |
“Lie down,” said the General, and the four regiments dropped upon the ground. The six cannon and the gunners alone were in sight.