withdrew, steadily and in order, to a new position.

Withers' First Brigade--Gladden's having been disordered in its first
attack on Prentiss, when General Gladden was killed--remained an hour at
halt in Prentiss' camp. After its sharp repulse in the later attack, the
brigade drifted to its right, following the course of preceding
brigades, came in front of Hurlbut's line, and moved to the attack.
Lauman's brigade, of Hurlbut's division, had remained undisturbed for an
hour after taking position. A skirmish line which he had posted in front
reported an advance of the enemy. Artillery from a distance in front
opened fire. At the first shot which fell in the Thirteenth Ohio
Battery, posted in the field to Lauman's left, with the right of
Williams' brigade, the entire battery deserted their guns and fled.
Shortly after the battle the men were, by order, distributed among other
batteries; the Thirteenth was blotted out, and on Ohio's roster its
place remained a blank throughout the war.

Soon, a line of gleaming steel was seen above the dense undergrowth in
Lauman's front. It advanced steadily till about one hundred yards from
his line. A sheet of fire blazed from the front of the brigade. The men,
restrained till then, fired rapidly but coolly. The fire could not be
resisted or endured. Gladden's brigade, now commanded by Colonel Adams,
was arrested in its march, broken, and fell back. Three times the
brigade rallied and returned to the assault. Once, a portion advanced to
within a few paces of the Thirty-first Indiana. But every charge was
vain, and Colonel Adams, the commander, being wounded, the brigade,
discomfited, withdrew.

After the termination of this engagement, several regiments--either the
Gladden brigade, now commanded by Colonel Deas, or one of the brigades
of Breckenridge's reserve--moved into the field to the left of Lauman.
Colonel Williams, commanding Hurlbut's first brigade, had been killed in
an artillery duel across the field, and the brigade, now commanded by
Colonel Pugh, had been drawn back from the field, behind a fence along
its northern boundary. The force that moved into the field was not only
confronted by the brigade under Colonel Pugh, but its flank was
commanded by the Seventeenth and Twenty-fifth Kentucky, which General
Lauman promptly wheeled to the left, against the fence bounding the
westerly face of the field. The assault made in this field was gallant
and deliberate, but brief and sa