Ninety-eighth Ohio, to move his troops to the right and repel this attack, if possible. It was in obeying this order that this gallant officer received a mortal wound. Retiring to Russell's house, I ordered my chief of artillery, Maj. C. S. Cotter, to bring up a section of artillery to stop their advance. This was done promptly. The guns were well handled, but could not stop this determined attack.

At this time the right of Rousseau's line was compelled to fall back to prevent it from being enveloped by the enemy. The enemy then placed a battery in the open field, about 800 yards from Russell's house, near Bolton's barn. The fire from this battery was so heavy that the point near Russell's house could not be held. Loomis' battery, having exhausted all its long-range ammunition, had been retired from its position in the afternoon to a commanding ridge about 150 yards in rear of Russell's house and on the right of the Perryville road, supported by three companies of the Michigan Mechanics and Engineers, commanded by Major Hopkins. I ordered Captain Loomis to reserve his canister for close work. This battery opened fire and repulsed this opened fire and repulsed this wicked attack for the first time. I then went to the point where the Dicksville and Springfield road crosses the Mackville and Perryville road. Near this point I met Captain Hoblitzell, with a brigade of General Robert B. Mitchell's division. This brigade was commanded by Colonel Gooding, of the Twenty-second Indiana, and consisted of his own regiment, the Fifty-ninth and Seventy-fifth Illinois Volunteers, and Capt. O. F. Pinney's Fifth Wisconsin Battery. I ordered the posting of his infantry, and then placed Captain Pinney's battery in position near the cross-roads and in a small skirt of timber to the right.

Gooding's attack, assisted by Pinney's battery, drove back the enemy and reoccupied the position at Russell's house. At this moment Brig. Gen. James B. Steedman reported to me with his brigade, of Schoepf's division. It was now nearly dark. He posted his battery on the right of Pinney's and opened fire. I then conducted his brigade to a position on the right and front of these batteries. The two battalions of the Eighteenth Regulars, under Maj. Frederick Townsend, were posted on a commanding ridge in an open field, the right resting on a wood; the Ninth Ohio on the right of Townsend, the right resting on a field. The other regiments of this brigade were in the second line and supporting the batteries. The line of Steedman's brigade was about 200 yards to the rear and right of Russell's house. By this time it was dark and the firing had ceased on both sides.

I remained in front of Steedman's line until 9 p.m., when I rode to the left and found the line there had been retired by General Rousseau. Believing that the enemy would renew the attack at daylight I ordered him to throw his line back, his left resting upon the Mackville and Perryville road, and his line extending to the right, on commanding ground, to the left of Steedman's brigade. This movement was executed about 12 o'clock at night. When General Terrill's brigade gave way, a portion of his troops fell back with him to the position occupied by Stone's and Bush's batteries, and at this point, when in the act of rallying his broken troops, at 4 p.m. he was struck in the side by the fragment of a shell, carrying away a portion of his left lung. He died at 11 p.m. When Terrill's brigade gave way seven guns of Parson's eight-gun battery fell into the hands of the enemy. At 6 p.m. four of the guns of Harris' Nineteenth Indiana Battery also fell into the hands of the enemy.

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