After about an hour's skirmishing, the enemy was driven off, and leaving a train and locomotive with steam up in waiting, a portion of them escaped.
He dismounted the infantry and sent the 44th Ohio, under Major Moore, up the river, and the rest under Colonel Byrd and Major Dow, to get in their rear.  After about an hour's skirmishing, the enemy was driven off, and leaving a train and locomotive with steam up in waiting, a portion of them escaped.  All their guns (five in number), 137 enlisted men and two officers, a vast amount of stores, ammunition, and provisions, (in cluding 600 sacks of salt) about seventy tents and a great quantity of camp equipage were left in his hands.