Several of Brown's men, including his two sons, having been killed or wounded, and the Armory being attacked in the rear as well as in front, ho re treated, with the few men he had left, into the engine-house.
There was a continuous cracking of rifles, the militia having posted themselves where they could shoot at the Armory windows, and Brown and his men defend ing themselves as well as they could.  Several of Brown's men, including his two sons, having been killed or wounded, and the Armory being attacked in the rear as well as in front, ho re treated, with the few men he had left, into the engine-house.  When night came, and the firing had ceased, Brown had left only three unwounded white men and a half-dozen negroes who