The enemy's pickets were driven in and we skirmished around there and were shelled from gunboats until morning of the 29th, when the town was evacuated.
General Butler met Howard's advance at Chesterfield, and skirmished to impede its march, but Cheraw was entered by the enemy March 2d, and much property destroyed.
In this forward movement he was delayed by General Hampton, who skirmishedat every available point.
Resuming the retreat, Clark skirmished with the advance of the enemy for two miles, when he gave up the pursuit.
Advancing from Williamsport, Hampton met a strong force of all arms sent to oppose Stuart, successfully skirmished with it all day of the 20th, and recrossed the river into Virginia without loss at night.
The enemy skirmished up to within ten paces of the train; a skirmish fire continued for about half an hour.
July 11th, the Thirtieth Massachusetts skirmished down Bayou La-Fourche about four miles, when they met the enemy’s cavalry in force, and returned to Donaldsonville towards night.
A cavalry detachment arrived late in the afternoon, dismounted and skirmishedforward without any result.
About noon the light cavalryskirmished with the enemy and fell back, but were not followed.
A few feet in advance of his men as they skirmished forward, extended to one pace interval, Bertram, followed by the Subedar, crossed the line of dead and wounded caught by the first blast of fire.
Forrest destroyed the railroad westward, captured the garrison at Sulphur Branch trestle, skirmished with the garrison at Pulaski on the 27th, and on the same day cut the Nashville and Chattanooga Railroad near Tullahoma and Dechard.
Again Jimmy Grayson skirmished around the dangerous question, but, as before, he did not make any direct attack upon it.
Next morning, I went out and skirmished a little, but on learning that a train was to start from Kingston, that day, I returned to headquarters, and got permission from the General to go home.
Stoughton's regiment in the valley, where they had skirmished the night before, and then prepared my report for the General, in writing, and forwarded it to him from the skirmish lines.
Simmons, who was with the famous Light Division, notes that the Rifles did not fire a shot after breaking up their winter quarters, until they skirmished with the French in the hills near the source of the Ebro.
French infantry skirmished right up to the crest, did a second effort of the Poles, supported by cavalry of the Guard, secure the pass.
The reverse was the case; for the march of the invaders had been rapid; and on Friday, the 16th of October, the Scottish vanguard came near the town, and skirmished with some parties of English who were abroad.
Reaching the city of Bourges, he skirmished at the gates, but without taking the place, and then passed to Vierzon, which he took by storm.
Finding their line deserted, we pushed forward and skirmished with them, they falling back all the while evidently to get us into an ambuscade.
The night passed with no general alarm, although the advance pickets skirmished with the enemy.
They had skirmished to within 200 yards of the rebel works, and there they were ordered to lay down, and the shot and shell flew all around them, but not a man of company B was injured.
A battle was expected all day Tuesday, but the enemy merelyskirmished and threw a few shells, one of which killed Orderly McDonald, of the Fourth United States Cavalry, not ten feet from General Rosecranz.
He also skirmished over the island in search of a rebel camp, and by this movement it was effectually broken up.
General Rosecranz marched from Nashville, with forty-five thousand men, and one hundred and two pieces of artillery, and skirmished all the way to the battle field, the enemy resisting bitterly.
The regiment, however, skirmished pretty lively with the enemy all the afternoon.
Early on the morning of the 25th our brigade again advanced and skirmished with the enemy all the way across Chattanooga Valley to Missionary Ridge.
For an extent of one hundred and fifty miles, the Cossacks skirmished at every border road or bridge between the Bug and the Dniester rivers.
Cavalry patrols had been thrown forward to Ligny and Gembloux, where they skirmished with uhlans.
Suffering the duke and his troops to pass unmolested, they approached the squadrons of the bishop, and making a pretended attack, skirmished slightly and fled in apparent confusion.
He led forth his Moors bravely to the encounter, and skirmished fiercely with the advance guard in the gardens near the city.
Their horssemen and charets skirmished by the waie with the Romans, but so as they were put backe oftentimes into the woods and hills adioining: yet the Britains slue diuers of the Romans as they followed anie thing egerlie in the pursute.
Ferguson moved rapidly from place to place, breaking up the bodies of armed whigs; and the latter now and thenskirmished fiercely with similar bands of tories, sometimes one side winning sometimes the other.
Sidenote: 16th] The enemy's cavalry made a reconnaissance and skirmished with some German Hussars stationed at Carpio, and retired.
The French now hit upon another expedient to retard our pursuit—they set the villages on fire, but that made us push on the faster through them, and at Echarri Ariñez we skirmished with some Voltigeurs, but they soon went off.
The Light troops skirmished with the enemy until dark.
Then we inclined toward the Blue Ridge, where the Rebel Army was marching north through the Shenandoah Valley, and at Aldie we began to hear firing, as our cavalry skirmished with the enemy at the mountain gaps of the valley.
We also had cavalry with the rear guard who skirmished with the enemy, and a battery of regular artillery which more than once took up a commanding position beside the road and with our cavalry kept the enemy in check.
General French, it may be noted, had made his way to the north, and had skirmished himself into possession of an enveloping area.
I skirmished around below the rock but I couldn't find anything.
They were of darker wood than those of the northern tribes we had skirmished with.
All this stretch of road and field and wood had been skirmished over, Stuart and the blue cavalry having been in touch through the earlier part of the day.
The day grew hot and the dust whirled up, and the cavalry skirmished at intervals with detached blue clouds of horsemen.
Late afternoon came and the army yet skirmished, marched, marched, skirmished on the Valley pike.
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