An Indian and a white man dropped.

The firing roused the camp.

Three hundred men in two lines under Charles Lewis and William Fleming sallied forth expecting to engage the vanguard of the enemy but encountered almost the whole force of from eight hundred to a thousand Indians before the rest of the army could come into action.

Both officers were wounded, Charles Lewis fatally.

The battle, which continued from dawn until an hour before sunset, was the bloodiest in Virginia's long series of Indian wars.