already arrived, he was detailed with his command as rear-guard, and the
rest of the army passed on to Monterey.

There was no pursuit of the retreating army. All advance by the National
troops ceased about four o'clock. McCook went into bivouac near the camp
of Peabody's brigade, Prentiss' division. Wood's division, arriving too
late to take part in the battle, pushed to the front and engaged his
skirmishers with the light troops covering the retreat. Mendenhall's
battery, far off toward Crittenden's left, catching some glimpses of the
retiring column through openings in the forest, sent some parting
rounds. Wood and Crittenden went into bivouac in front of Prentiss'
camp. General Buell pushed Nelson forward on the Hamburg road, near to
the crossing of Lick Creek, and the division bivouacked near Stuart's
camp. The divisions, or what was present of them, of McClernand,
Sherman, Hurlbut, and W.H.L. Wallace, returned to their camps. Lewis
Wallace advanced his division across Oak Creek to the large field.
Company A, of the Twentieth Ohio, obtaining permission to proceed
farther, advanced to the Confederate hospital and was deploying to drive
off a detachment of cavalry that was burning a commissary train, when it
was recalled to rejoin the division, then returning across Oak Creek, to
bivouac in front of the camp of McDowell's brigade.

McClernand and Sherman formed part of the line of battle. Prentiss'
division was gone. The other two divisions, what was left of them, acted
in reserve. Hurlbut formed his division in the morning complete, with
the exception of the Forty-sixth Illinois, which served for the day with
McClernand. It was a skeleton division. The Third Iowa was 140 men
under the command of a lieutenant. In the forenoon, General Grant sent
Hurlbut out to act as reserve to McClernand. The Twenty-eighth Illinois
took place for a while on McClernand's left, and Veatch with his three
regiments took place on McCook's left, when he diverged from Crittenden.
Colonel Tuttle, senior officer in the Second Division, by the death of
W.H.L. Wallace and the wounding of McArthur, gathered the remaining
regiments of his division, except the Fourteenth Missouri and the
Eighty-first Ohio, added to them Colonel Crocker and three regiments of
McClernand's First Brigade, and marched in reserve to Crittenden. He
sent the Second Iowa to Nelson, when Nelson's line was broken by the
gallant but disastrous charge of Hazen; the Eighth