five regiments, two battalions and two batteries, had been detached
from the reserve at Beauregard's request for reinforcements, and sent by
Johnston to his extreme left. Skirting Owl Creek, he came in full force
upon Sherman's right flank, at half-past twelve o'clock. McDowell's two
remaining regiments, the Sixth Iowa and Forty-sixth Ohio, were quickly
moved to confront Trabue. The Forty-sixth Ohio was more alert in
movement, and opened a hot fire before Trabue was completely deployed
and in position. A steady combat through the timber and underbrush, and
across the ravines, lasted an hour and a half. The Sixth Iowa lost 51
killed and 120 wounded; the Forty-sixth Ohio, losing fewer killed, but
more wounded--34 killed, 150 wounded, and 52 taken prisoners--was quite
shattered, and took no further part in the battle. Colonel Trabue's
estimate of the character of the fighting at this point appears from his
statement that his command in this encounter killed and wounded four or
five hundred of the Forty-Sixth Ohio alone. It appears also from his
report, which has never been officially published, but which is printed
in the "History of the First Kentucky Brigade," that, of the 844
casualties in the brigade in the two days' battle, 534 were in the four
regiments engaged in this encounter. Sherman readjusted his line,
resting his right on a deep ravine running to Owl Creek, and keeping his
left in connection with McClernand. Trabue was reinforced by General
A.P. Stewart and part of his brigade, and a part of Anderson's brigade
which had been resting in a ravine in the rear. The struggle lasted with
varying intensity and alternate success.

There were charges and countercharges, ground was lost and regained; but
the general result was a recession of the battered division to the left
and rear. About four o'clock, during a lull, Sherman moved his reduced
command still farther in the same direction, and took position so as to
cover the road by which Lewis Wallace was to arrive. Here, with an open
field in front, he was not further molested, and here he bivouacked for
the night. At this point, Captain Hickenlooper, who had been engaged
all day in the sturdy defence made by Prentiss, joined Sherman with his
battery. Buckland, rejoined by the Seventieth Ohio, was ordered, late in
the afternoon, to take his brigade to the bridge over Snake Creek, by
which Lewis Wallace was expected. From this point the Forty-eighth Ohio
marched to the