About four in the afternoon
They had struck the Central railroad , but the gray cavaliers were close on them . Colonel Robert Randolph , that brave soul , doomed like Gordon , charged them furiously here , took nearly a hundred prisoners , and drove them across the road . At this moment Stuart returned , and pushed forward toward Taylorsville , from which point he intended to hasten on and get in their front . About four in the afternoon we reached Fork church , and the command halted to rest . Stuart stretched himself at full length , surrounded by his staff , in a field of clover ; and placing his hat over his face to protect his eyes from the light , snatched a short sleep , of which he was very greatly in need . The column again moved , and that night camped near Taylorsville , awaiting the work of the morrow . At daylight on the 11th , Stuart moved toward Ashland .