A heavy mist obscured him from the view of the troops on the top of the mountain.

He crossed the creek almost unobserved, and captured the picket of over forty men on guard near by.

He then commenced ascending the mountain directly in his front.

By this time the enemy was seen coming down from their camps on the mountain slope, and filing into their rifle-pits to contest the crossing of the bridge.

By eleven o'clock the bridge was complete.