The Southern brigades rushed forward in pursuit, capturing many prisoners, and giving impulse to the flight of their enemies.

Their riflemen shot down the horses drawing the retreating cannon.

Many of the guns were lost, twenty-two of them falling into Southern hands.

Some of the newer regiments melted entirely away under an attack of such fierceness.

Nothing stopped the advance of Lee and Jackson but the night, and the arrival of a heavy reinforcement sent by McClellan.