Fourteenth Brigade - Fifth Division - Army
of the Ohio
Colonel William Sooy Smith
This brigade formed in front of the camps of the thirty-second and Forty-first Illinois at 8 a.m. Monday, April 7, 1862, in the following order: Thirteenth Ohio on the left, Twenty-sixth Kentucky on the right, and the Eleventh Kentucky in reserve. The Fourteenth Wisconsin was attacked temporarily to the brigade and placed on the right of the Twenty-sixth Kentucky. It served with the brigades all day. The brigades advanced, with its right on eastern Corinth road, and became engaged along the sunken road, where Tuttle and Prentiss fought on Sunday. It advanced through the thick brush and assisted in the capture of a battery in the Wheat Field, but was obliged to abandon it and return to old road. In the final action about 2 p.m. it captured some guns of another battery, which were successfully held as trophies by the brigade.
11th Kentucky - Colonel Pierce B. Hawkins
