rt of Bragg's corps and the
reserves under General Breckenridge.

Colonel Stuart received word from Prentiss at half-past seven o'clock
that the enemy was advancing in force. Shortly after, his pickets sent
in word that the hostile column was in sight on the Bark road. He sent
his adjutant, Loomis, to General Hurlbut for assistance, but Hurlbut was
already in motion. Hurlbut, receiving notice from General Sherman, sent
Veatch's brigade to his aid. Soon after, getting a request for support
from Prentiss, he marched from his camp at twenty minutes after eight
o'clock, with his first brigade commanded by Colonel Williams, of the
Third Iowa, and his Third Brigade, commanded by Brigadier-General
Lauman. Passing out by the Hamburg road, across the first small field
and through a belt of timber beyond that, and into the large field that
stretched to Stuart's camp, he formed the First Brigade in line near the
southern side of the field, the Forty-first Illinois on the left, and
the Third Iowa on the right. The Third Brigade, Lauman's, the
Seventeenth and Twenty-fifth Kentucky forming the left, and the
Thirty-first and Forty-fourth Indiana the right, connected with
Prentiss' left, and was posted like it, protected in front with dense
thickets. General McArthur's two regiments appear to have operated on
Stuart's right. The Sixteenth Wisconsin and Sixty-first Illinois, from
Prentiss' division, formed in reserve in rear of the centre of Hurlbut's
line.

Colonel Stuart, finding Mann's battery, supported by the Forty-first
Illinois, coming to his aid and going into position by the headquarters
of one of his regiments, the Seventy-first Ohio, formed his line, the
Seventy-first Ohio and Fifty-fifth Illinois to the left of this battery
and facing nearly west, the Fifty-fourth Ohio at their left and facing
south. He sent four companies as skirmishers across the ravine to the
south of his camp, which discharges eastwardly into Lick Creek. His
skirmishers were unable to prevent the establishment of a hostile
battery on the heights beyond the ravine. While he was on the bank of
the ravine observing the enemy with his glass, Mann's battery, after
firing a few rounds at the hostile battery at a range of eleven hundred
yards, withdrew with the Forty-first Illinois back into the field, to
connect with their brigade. The Seventy-first Ohio, without orders, at
the same time retired. The Seventy-first Ohio was engaged in supporting
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