Others rushed in and slew two of Brown's men by the use of the bayonet.

To save the prisoners from harm, Lee had given careful instruction to fire no shot, to use only bayonets.

The other insurgents were made prisoners.

"The whole fight," Green reported, "had not lasted over three minutes." Of all the prisoners taken and held as hostages, not one was killed or wounded.

They were made as safe as the conditions permitted.