All his guns fired into their masses at once.

The discharge seemed fairly to blow them back over the works from which they had just emerged.
Their artillery, under Colonel Crutchfield, which had been brought up, was almost annihilated by the fire of the battery on the Plank Road.

This gave time to reload the guns.
The enemy rallied and opened a furious musketry fire from the woods against Pleasonton and Berry.

Both stood firm, and then came two charges in succession which reached almost to the muzzles of Pleasonton's guns, which were only supported by two small regiments of cavalry--the 6th New York, and a new and untried regiment, the 17th Pennsylvania.

The whole did not amount to over 1,000 men.
Archer's brigade, on Jackson's left, which had not been stayed by Keenan's charge, gained the woods and the Plank Road, and opened a severe enfilading fire.