In the mid-afternoon of March 31, 1865, opposing forces converged on Danse's Ford, 1½ miles to the left along Chamberlain's Bed, and before Davies could return the main body of his Federal cavalry brigade to the ford after being sent to reinforce Smith at Fitzgerald's Ford, Pickett's Division moved against Davies' small force. Pickett brushed aside the small Federal force and drove Davies back to the Dinwiddie Court House Road. Colonel Thomas Munford's Confederate cavalry, marching from Five Forks, joined Pickett's advancing infantry to form a half mile wide battleline. Union Brigadier General Thomas Devin arrived with reinforcements, Colonel Peter Stagg's Brigade, and took command. Devin ordered Fitzhugh's Brigade to fall back down the Dinwiddie Court House Road, and the Union cavalry took up a position in this vicinity. Pickett's force then drove a wedge into the Union position, splitting it in two, after which Devin was ordered to withdraw to Dinwiddie Court House and his troops rode across country to the Boydton Plank Road. Union Lieutenant Colonel Horace Porter witnessed the withdrawal of several of Sheridan's brigades that had been cut off from the main body along the Crump Road, now Boisseau Road, as one of Sheridan's bands played under heavy fire. Pickett then wheeled his command to the south in an effort to press his advantage.