He had built a slight foot-bridge for infantry in the bit of smooth water known as the Ferry, though both above and below the stream is an impassable mountain torrent.

The artillery crossed in the flatboats.
Once over, the bridge was broken up and the ferry-boats were sunk.
He reported but twenty casualties, and threw much of the responsibility upon Wise, who had not obeyed orders to reinforce him.

His hospital, containing the wounded prisoners taken from Tyler, fell into Rosecrans's hands.

[Footnote: A very graphic description of this engagement and of Floyd's retreat fell into my hands soon afterward.

It was a journal of the campaign written by Major Isaac Smith of the Twenty-second Virginia Regiment, which he tried to send through our lines to his family in Charleston, W.Va., but which was intercepted.