ade, being isolated, finally retired to the right
and rear, and took position near the hospital.

When the rest of Oglesby's brigade retreated, the Thirty-first Illinois,
Colonel John A. Logan, the left of the brigade and connecting with the
right of Colonel W.H.L. Wallace's brigade, wheeled so as to have its
line at right angles with the line of the enemy's intrenchments; for, as
McArthur's and Oglesby's commands crumbled away, Pillow's division,
rolling up McClernand's, were now advancing in a course parallel to the
front of their intrenchments. The Thirty-first held its ground; but
yielding was only a question of time. As Pillow's division in deploying
continually increased its front, Colonel Baldwin's brigade was
continually pressed to his right and came in front of W.H.L. Wallace's
brigade. McCausland's brigade, consisting of the Thirty-sixth and
Fiftieth Virginia, formed on Baldwin's right and in front of W.H.L.
Wallace, Their assault was aided by the batteries in position in the
intrenchments, and Wallace's batteries alternately replied to the
artillery and played upon the line of infantry. Wallace held his line,
and Pillow sent to Buckner to advance. Buckner held his command within
the intrenchments massed, waiting for his opportunity. He sent three
regiments, Third Tennessee, Eighteenth Tennessee, and Fourteenth
Mississippi, across the intervening hollow. They attacked with spirit;
but, confused by the missiles flying overhead, broken by pushing through
the snow-covered boughs, and galled by the hot fire they encountered,
they quickly fell back in disorder, and, according to General Buckner,
communicated their depression to the rest of his command.

Toward noon, as McClernand's right was rolled up and began to crumble,
Buckner, who had cheered his men, now led his division farther to his
right, near to Heiman's position in the intrenchments; there he
approached under cover till near Wallace's line. Three batteries
supported his charge--Maney's, Porter's, and Graves', these three
batteries concentrating their fire on Wallace's artillery. Forrest
brought his cavalry forward. Wallace's brigade, with Taylor's and
McAllister's batteries, and Logan's regiment, with boxes nearly empty,
withstood the combined attack. McAllister fired his last round of
ammunition. Taylor had fired seventeen hundred rounds of ammunition, an
average of two hundred and eighty-three rounds to the piece. The
infantry fired their last cartri