The latter was instantly boarded by the Federals, when the two young men from Halifax were seized and put in irons. |
Federals arrested only six of the bushwhackers identified in the 1860 census in a county other than the one where he resided. |
Finally, the Federals ran out of ammunition and turned to fighting hand-to-hand with bayonets, scrambling through the forest and the underbrush. |
The Federals, caught out of formation, were routed and were soon in retreat, abandoning their standards and hundreds of prisoners. |
The federals had set fire to his house and it burned with his household things and personal belongings inside. |
Still, Confederates struck hard at McPherson's Federals in a fierce day-long battle. |