Wade Hampton, the information being confirmed by a scouting party sent out to cut the telegraph wires along the railroad in the night.  Breckenridge had been ordered back to the valley by General Lee as soon as he heard of Hunter’s victory near Staunton, but now that my expedition had been discovered, the movement of Breckenridge’s troops on the railroad was being timed to correspond with the marches of my command till Hampton could get more nearly parallel with me.

On the 10th we resumed the march, passing by Twyman’s store, crossing the North Anna at Carpenter’s ford and encamping on the road leading along the south fork of the North Anna to Trevillian Station.  During the evening and night of the Loth the boldness of the enemy’s scouting parties, with which we had been coming into collision more or less every day, perceptibly increased, thus indicating the presence of a large force, and evidencing that his shorter line of march had enabled him to bring to my front a strong body of cavalry, although it started from Lee’s army nearly two days later than I did from Grant’s.  The arrival of this body also permitted Breckenridge to pass on to Gordonsville, and from there to interpose between General Hunter and me at either Charlottesville or Waynesboro’ as circumstances might determine.

On the night of the Loth General Hampton’s division camped about three miles northwest of Trevillian, at a place called Green Spring Valley and Fitzhugh Lee’s division not far from Louisa Court House, some six miles east of Trevillian.  Learning that I was at Carpenter’s ford, Hampton marched his division by way of Trevillian Station toward Clayton’s store, on the road from Trevillian to Carpenter’s ford, intending to attack me at Clayton’s.  Fitzhugh Lee’s division was to join Hampton at Clayton’s store from Louisa Court House; but on the morning of the 11th the two generals were separated by several miles.

At daylight of the 11th my march, to Trevillian Station was resumed on the direct road to that point, and engaging the enemy’s pickets and advanced parties soon after setting out, we began to drive them in.  Torbert had the lead with Merritt’s and Devin’s brigades, and as he pressed back the pickets he came upon the enemy posted behind a line of barricades in dense timber about three miles from Trevillian.  Meanwhile Custer’s brigade had been sent from where we bivouacked, by a wood road found on our left, to destroy Trevillian Station.  In following this road Custer got to the rear of Hampton’s division, having passed between its right flank and Fitzhugh Lee’s division, which was at the time marching on the road leading from Louisa Court House to Clayton’s store to unite with Hampton.