This brigade formed in line of battle on Crittenden's
right at 8 a.m., April 7, 1862, in front of the camp of the third Iowa,
in the following order: Sixth Indiana on the left, First Ohio in the center,
First Battalions of Nineteenth, Fifteenth, and Sixteenth United Stated Infantry
on the right, and the Fifth Kentucky in reserve. The Fifteenth Michigan
was attached temporarily to this brigade and served with it all day. At
9 a.m. the brigade advanced across Tilghman Creek and engaged Trabue's brigade
until about 11 a.m., when Trabue retired and Rousseau advanced to Woolf
Field, where he found a force of the enemy on its west side. His ammunition
being exhausted, Rousseau retired and Kirk's brigade took his place in the
first line. As soon as ammunition was supplied Rousseau took position again
in the front line and engaged until he retired from the field.
6th
Indiana - Colonel Thomas T. Crittenden
5th
Kentucky - Colonel Harvey M. Buckley
1st
Ohio - Colonel Benjamin F. Smith
United States Infantry - Major John H.
King
1st
Battalion, 15th United States Infantry - Captain Peter T. Swain
1st
Battalion, 16th United States Infantry - Captain Edward F. Townsend
1st
Battalion, 19th United States Infantry - Captain Stephen D. Carpenter