In the mean time General Butler was mortally wounded, the left of the right wing was broken, the artillerists almost to a man killed, the guns seized, and the camp penetrated by the enemy.

With his own regiment, and with the battalions commanded by Majors Butler[58] and Clarke, Darke was ordered again to charge with the bayonet.

These orders were executed with intrepidity and momentary success.

The Indians were driven out of the camp, and the artillery recovered.

But while they were pressed in one point by the bravest of the American troops, their fire was kept up from every other with fatal effect.