The term of service of the volunteers having expired, General Clinch marched them, on January 2d, to Fort Drane and disbanded them.  In this last-named engagement the regulars and volunteers, numbering, all told, two hundred and twenty-seven men—­under the able leadership of Clinch, Major Campbell Graham, Major Fanning, Colonel John Warren, General Richard K. Call, Cooper, and Lieutenant George Read—­succeeded in defeating over seven hundred Indians who had chosen their ground and were protected by the swamps and hammocks.  The volunteer officers, to whom great credit was due, were Major (afterward Brigadier General) Leigh Read, whose horse was shot under him, Colonel John Warren, Colonel Parkhill (of Richmond, Va.), Colonel William J. Mills, Major Cooper, Captain Martin Scott, and Captain William J. Bailey.  The services of General Call and Majors Gamble and Wellford were of great value.  General Clinch makes mention of Major J.S.  Little his aid-de-camp, Captains Gustavus S. Drane, Charles Mellon, and Gates, Lieutenants George Henry Talcott, Erastus A. Capron, John Graham, William Seaton Maitland, and Horace Brooks, of the United States army, and Colonel McIntosh, Lieutenants Youman, Stewart, Nathaniel W. Hunter, Cuthbert, and Adjutant Joseph A. Phillips, of the Florida volunteers, of the officers of the medical staff.  Special mention was made of Drs. Richard Weightman, Hamilton, Philip G. Randolph, and Brandon.  The returns of the killed and wounded were as follows: 

REGULARS. 
Killed, 2 artificers and 2 privates 4
Wounded, 1 captain and 2 lieutenants 3
Two sergeants and 4 corporals 6
Private soldiers 43
          
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                                                   52
VOLUNTEERS. 
Wounded, Colonel Warren, Major Cooper, and Lieutenant Youman 3
Private soldiers 4
          
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                                                    7 59 = 63

Previous to and immediately after this engagement the Indians divided themselves into small parties for the purpose of devastating the country.  They made their appearance simultaneously in the southern part of the peninsula as far north as Picolata and from the extreme east below St. Augustine to the west, carrying off everything that was useful to them and destroying the remainder.  At New River, on the southeast side of the peninsula, they murdered the wife, children, and teacher in the family of Mr. Cooley, carrying off provisions and horses, and setting fire to the house on their departure.

The settlements in that neighborhood were abandoned, the inhabitants taking refuge near the lighthouse on Cape Florida; but they had been there only a short time when, the Indians making their appearance, they were compelled to seek shelter and protection elsewhere.