From its bivouac Saturday night on the road toward
Mickey's this brigade marched by the Bark and Eastern Corinth roads Sunday
morning to a position between the Peach Orchard and Locust Grove Creek,
where it formed in battle at 12a o'clock under the personal direction of
General Johnston in the following order from left to right: Ninth Arkansas,
Tenth Arkansas, Second Confederate, First Missouri with Hudson's (Mississippi)
and Watson's (Louisiana) batteries in the rear, its left 800 yards to rear
and en échelon to Jackson's brigade. From this position it moved
forward at 12.30b p.m. and became engaged, in conjunction with Jackson,
in an attack upon McArthur's brigade just east of the Peach Orchard. The
attack was successful; the Union line was driven back and pursued to the
northeast corner of the Peach Orchard. General Johnston, following close
to the rear of this brigade, was killed at 2.30 p.m. Bowen was next engaged
at Wicker Field with troops at the camp of the Twenty-eighth Illinois for
two hours, when he was wounded and his brigade fell back to Seventy-first
Ohio camp, where Colonel Martin took command and moved forward in time to
join Breckinridge in his movement toward the river after the surrender of
Prentiss. Martin says he halted within 300 or 400 yards of the river when
the batteries near Pittsburg and the gunboats opened on him, and being nearly
night he fell back "to the first encampment the farthest from the river"
and stayed all night. On Monday he was engaged under Breckinridge and fell
back with him to the Bark road, where he bivouacked Monday as rear guard.
No mention in the reports of either Hudson's or Watson's batteries.
9th
Arkansas - Colonel Isaac L. Dunlop
10th
Arkansas - Colonel Thomas D. Merrick
2nd
Confederate - Colonel John D. Martin
1st
Missouri - Colonel Lucius L. Rich
Hudson's
Mississippi Battery - Captain Alfred Hudson
Watson
Louisiana Battery - Captain Allen A. Burlsey
Thompson's
Company Kentucky Cavalry - Captain Phil B. Thompson