The Native Americans were camped with their women and children[28] on the top of a hill, with the soldiers located across a narrow ravine about 1,500 feet deep.[28] Two hundred of the Native Americans were in the mountains southwest of present-day Roseburg[28] armed with muzzleloaders, bows, and arrows and managed to hold off a group of "more than 300 ... dragoons, militiamen and volunteers".[28]