Yankee's slowly pushed back from position to position past hay stacks, rock piles, a road, an apple orchard, a cornfield, several fences, and finally a rock wall where they turned to make a stand. Here Colonel Sloan is hit in the left breast. Men call to him but he cannot stand and orders the men to move forward. Attendants are left with him and line advances with Marshborne in command. Angered men leaped the wall and pushed the Yankees back over a field for over a mile.
Yanks eventually take cover in a farmhouse and barn near dense woods.
Low on ammunition and exhausted, the brigade pulls back. Brigade losses are near 40 percent. Withdrawing toward Potomac. Sleeping in grove of large trees with no tents. Sept 19 Cross Potomac back to Virginia.