Among the rest, the chief surgeons of the First Corps, Doctor Theodore Heard and Doctor Thomas H.Bache, refused to leave their patients, and in consequence of the hasty retreat of the enemy were fortunately not carried off.
After the battle Meade had not the slightest desire to recommence the struggle.

It is a military maxim that to a flying enemy must be given a wall of steel or a bridge of gold.

In the present instance it was unmistakably the bridge of gold that was presented.
It was hard to convince him that Lee was actually gone, and at first he thought it might be a device to draw the Union army from its strong position on the heights.
Our cavalry were sent out on the 4th to ascertain where the enemy were, and what they were doing.

General Birney threw forward a reconnoitering party and opened fire with a battery on a column making their way toward Fairfield, but he was checked at once and directed _on no account to bring on a battle._ On the 5th, as it was certain the enemy were retreating, Sedgwick received orders to follow up the rear of the rebel column.

He marched eight miles to Fairfield Pass.