ded the order.

Chalmers' brigade, coming up from the second line, made an impetuous
charge. Jackson's brigade, which followed in rear of Chalmers, moved
forward and joined in the attack. Prentiss fell back and made a stand
immediately in front of his camp. After a gallant but short struggle,
his division, about nine o'clock, gave way and fell back through his
camp, leaving behind Powell's guns and caissons and two of
Hickenlooper's guns, all the horses of Hickenlooper's two guns being
killed. The line was broken and disordered by the tents. The
Twenty-fifth Missouri, and portions of other regiments drifted to the
rear. On the summit of a slope, covered by dense thicket, not far to the
rear of his camp, Prentiss rallied the Eighteenth and Twenty-first
Missouri, Twelfth Michigan, and Eighteenth Wisconsin. The Sixty-first
Illinois and Sixteenth Wisconsin were also rallied, but detached to form
in reserve to Hurlbut. The Twenty-third Missouri, arriving by boat at
the landing after the battle had begun, moved out at once and took
position in Prentiss' new line. In this position his left was near the
extreme southern head of the ravine of Brier Creek; thence his line
extended along an old, sunk, washed-out road running a little north of
west, and reached nearly to the Corinth road. Prentiss in person put
Hickenlooper's battery in position immediately to the right of the
Corinth road, near the intersection of the roads. Prentiss' men used the
road cut as a defence, lying down in it and firing from it. General
Grant, visiting Prentiss, approved the position and directed him to hold
it at all hazards. The order was obeyed. Continually assaulted by
successive brigades, he repelled every attack and held the position
till the close of the day.

General W.H.L. Wallace, commanding Smith's division, formed his
regiments at eight o'clock. Some of the regiments loaded their wagons
and received extra ammunition. At half-past eight o'clock the division
moved; McArthur with two of his regiments, the Ninth and Twelfth
Illinois, went to support Stuart's brigade at its isolated camp at the
extreme left of the National line, having sent the Thirteenth Missouri
to Sherman, and left the Fourteenth Missouri and Eighty-first Ohio to
guard the bridge over Snake Creek, on the Crump's Landing road. Wallace
led his other two brigades to the support of Prentiss, placing Tuttle on
Prentiss' right, and Sweeney to the right of Tuttle. Tuttle's left was