We had a fight with four men who came up with us there.

Only one of them got away--and he left his gun behind.

It was lucky, for their guns and pistols were of immense use to us.

We could not have held out with only our own weapons.
"About twenty of their cavalry came up a few minutes afterwards.

We beat them off, and then they sent up to the fort for infantry, and about fifty men came down and attacked us, just at sunrise.