The amount of arms and stores captured was prodigious.

Eight pieces of artillery, 250 horses, 3 locomotives, and tens of thousands of barrels of beef, pork, and flour, with an enormous quantity of public stores and the contents of innumerable sutlers' shops.
The sight of this vast abundance to starving men was tantalizing in the extreme.

It was impossible to carry any of it away, and all that could be done was to have at least one good meal.

The troops therefore were marched in, and each helped himself to as much as he could consume, and the ragged and barefooted men feasted upon canned salmon and lobsters, champagne, and dainties of every description forwarded for the use of officers.

Then they set to work to pile the enormous mass of stores together and to set it on fire.