... a brief cannonade by three sections of field-pieces, planted by Colonel Tidball, the chief of artillery, was stormed and carried at six o'clock in the evening by the brigades of Pierce and Eagan, of Birney 's division. They lost one hundred and fifty men, and captured thirty of the garrison. That night the Confederates tried in vain to: burn the bridge; and before morning they abandoned their advanc...