The alarm spread instantly through the camp, and in a moment the command turned out for action, somewhat in deshabille it is true, but none the less effective, for every man had grabbed his rifle and cartridge-box at the first alarm.

Aided by a few shots from Captain Henry Hescock's battery, we soon drove the intruders from our camp in about the same disorder in which they had broken in on us.

By this time Colonel Hatch and Colonel Albert L.Lee had mounted two battalions each, and I moved them out at a lively pace in pursuit, followed by a section of the battery.

No halt was called till we came upon the enemy's main body, under Colonel Faulkner, drawn up in line of battle near Newland's store.

Opening on him with the two pieces of artillery, I hurriedly formed line confronting him, and quickly and with but little resistance drove him in confusion from the field.