About eleven o'clock
I did not have very far to go . The company was deployed on the left of Company C . Then we went forward in line for half a mile or more , through woods and fields , the brigade following in line of battle . About eleven o'clock we had before us an extensive piece of open land -- uncultivated , level , and dry . In the edge of the woods we had halted , so that we might not get too far ahead of the brigade . From this position we saw -- some six hundred yards at our left oblique -- a group of horsemen ride out into the field , seemingly upon a road , or line , that would intersect our line of advance . Our men were at once in place .