At the first warning of the Union advance, General Branch had formed his troops facing the east and southeast, and covering the ashcake road, which runs in a sort of semicircle from the Hanover road to Ashland on the west, so that the attack of the Union forces against the main body of rebels merely forced them to give ground in the direction of Ashland.
"Who Goes There?"
Blackwood Ketcham Benson
The officers succeeded in forming a line across a road running to the westward, which I believed, from my knowledge of the map, to be the ashcake road.
"Who Goes There?"
Blackwood Ketcham Benson
Brer Fox sez, sezee, he gwine ter bake hoecake; Brer Rabbit sez, sezee, he gwine ter make ashcake.
"Nights With Uncle Remus"
Joel Chandler Harris