The enemy evacuated the place in the night, destroying the pontoons, running three locomotives and forty-eight cars into the Tennessee, and abandoning a large quantity of provisions, four guns, and other material, which General Howard took at daylight.
The cavahy moved with such rapidity as to capture every picket ; but Vaughn had artillery in position, covered by earthworks, and displayed a force too large to be dislodged by a cavahy dash, and darkness closed in before General Howard's infantry arrived on the ground.  The enemy evacuated the place in the night, destroying the pontoons, running three locomotives and forty-eight cars into the Tennessee, and abandoning a large quantity of provisions, four guns, and other material, which General Howard took at daylight.  But the bridge being gone, Sherman was forced to turn east, and trust to the bridge at Knoxvdle.