In the course of it, some sharp skirmishing took place, which was terminated by a vigorous charge made by Colonel Washington on a corps of British horse who led their van.
This corps being broken and closely pursued, the infantry in its rear retreated precipitately into Camden.
{April 26.} The number of continental troops engaged in this action amounted to about twelve hundred[3] men, and the loss in killed, wounded, and missing, to two hundred and sixty-six.

Among the killed was Captain Beaty, of Maryland, who was mentioned by General Greene as an ornament to his profession; and among the wounded was Colonel Ford, of Maryland, a gallant officer, whose wounds proved mortal.

The militia attached to the army amounted to two hundred and sixty-six, of whom two were missing.

The total loss sustained by the British army has been stated at two hundred and fifty-eight, of whom thirty-eight were killed in the field.
[Footnote 3: There is some variance between this statement and that which has been made by Mr.Ramsay and Mr.Gordon, although their estimates are supposed to have been formed on the same document--the field return made by the adjutant general of the southern army, dated the 26th of April.

This return contains a column of the present fit for duty, and also exhibits the killed, wounded, and missing, but contains no column of total numbers.