...hout firing a gun. Steedman, having exhausted his ammunition, at six o'clock abandons the Villetoe pass and retires upon the second crest of Horseshoe Hill, which closes this pass to the northward. Hindman follows Steedman, takes possession of the ground thus left vacant, and again menaces the right flank of Brannan, who, in order to cover it, places Van Derveer's brigade en potence. If the assailants ...