Many who were made prisoners had no wound except from bayonets.

From The Road to Guilford Courthouse by John Buchanan. Page 167.

For de Kalb and his faithful Continentals paid no heed to the flight of the militia. “The regular troops,” wrote Otho Williams, “who had the keen edge of sensibility rubbed off by strict discipline and hard service, saw the confusion with but little emotion.” They also may not have realized the extent of the disaster on their left, for as Cornwallis later reported to Germain, there was “at this time a dead calm, with a little haziness in the air, which preventing the smoke from rising occasioned so thick a darkness that it was difficult to see the effect of a very heavy and well supported fire on both sides.” Besides, the Continentals were winning their fight. Twice they repulsed the Volunteers of Ireland and the Legion infantry, then counterattacked with the bayonet, drove the British before them, and took prisoners. The Volunteers of Ireland were so roughly handled they nearly broke and might have had it not been for a general who had the smell of battle “in his nostrils.” Cornwallis saw the crisis on his left and rode boldly to meet it. A captain of the Volunteers of Ireland described the earl "with great coolness, in the midst of a heavier fire than the oldest soldier remembers,” rallying the troops by words and example. The danger to his left was stemmed, and on the right James Webster sealed the fate of the Continentals. Instead of allowing his infantry to pursue militia who were well out of the fight he swung his entire wing to the left and continued its charge.

One North Carolina militia regiment and its officers stood fast. They were stationed next to the Delaware Line, and perhaps the stoic example of those splendid troops steadied them. Whatever the reason for their faithfulness, they were the first to catch the brunt of Webster’s flank attack. Led principally by General Gregory, who had lost the rest of his brigade to panic, and Lieutenant Colonel Henry Dixon, whose regiment it was, this unit met the British regulars like veterans. One of their opponents, Sergeant Roger Lamb of the Royal Welsh Fusiliers, wrote that they “acquited themselves well” and “kept the field while they had a cartridge to fire; Gregory himself was twice wounded by a bayonet,” and many who were made prisoners had “no wound except from bayonets.