Sixteen hundred prisoners, eight pieces of artillery, four battle-flags, and more than two thousand stand of small arms, were the trophies of this splendid victory.
General Hunter at once resumed offensive operations, moved up the valley and encountered the enemy at Piedmont and routed him, capturing fifteen hundred prisoners, three pieces of artillery and three thousand stand of small arms.
The army, however, was still deficient in small arms, and Washington wrote urgently to the New York authorities for assistance of that kind.
The inspectors of the arms of regiments are selected from among those who have become acquainted with the manufacture of small arms.
Small arms (47) and armor (31) seemed adequate although Indians still infested the place and occasionally a man was killed.
There was some armor, a good supply ofsmall arms and, comparatively speaking, an adequate stock of corn of 30 barrels.
Although strong in small arms, it had a major allotment of ordnance.
They are ahead of the old set in small arms, and fully equal to them at the great guns.
When Reynolds' divisions had approached within range, Jackson's small arms on the left poured in a deadly fire, mowing down the brave men in the Union lines in swaths, leaving broad gaps where men had stood.
The sound of battle gradually subsided, then ceased except for the intermittent reports of small arms, and the second day's fight was over.
A flight of missiles, as arrows, bullets, or the like; the simultaneous discharge of a number of small arms.
It was well provided with ordnance, small arms, and ammunition, and might easily seize on the unarmed boats, freighted with millions of property, which passed almost daily within its reach.
He discovered that there was a sentry standing near a guard-house, in which there were a quantity of arms heaped up in a corner, and that a considerable number of small arms were in the governor's hall.
If our boats came into contact with the boats of the enemy, the contest would be reduced to boat fighting; the ship could not use her cannon or small arms against us without firing on her own boats.
The fire of small arms, however, was yet kept up; but, as though the mortal struggle became more and more faint, that too gradually ceased.
On all sides was heard the firing of small arms, intermixed at times with the reports of the artillery, already playing upon the waggon-train in the suburbs.
The time arrived, the guns are run out with the command, "Give him a broadside, a volley of small arms, and a huzza.
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