The bodies of the dead in red or blue lay everywhere.
Officers, English and Virginian, ran here and there begging and praying their troops to stand and form in order.

"Fire upon the enemy!" they shouted.

"Show us somebody to fire at and we'll fire," the men shouted back.

The confusion was deepening, and the signs of a panic were appearing.

In the forest the circle of Indians, mad with battle and the greatest taking of scalps they had ever known, pressed closer and closer, and sent sheets of bullets into the huddled mass.