The head of this division arrived opposite to
Pittsburg Landing about 5 p.m., April 6, 1862. One brigade, Ammen's,
crossed the river and parts of the Thirty-sixth Indiana and Sixth Ohio
were engaged in the closing action of Sunday. At 9 p.m. the entire division
had crossed the Tennessee River and formed along the north side of Dill
Branch, where it bivouacked Sunday night with pickets across the branch.
At 5:30 a.m. on the 7th the division advanced and at 7 a.m. formed on
south side of the branch and awaited the completion of the line. At
8 a.m. it attacked the Confederates in the Peach Orchard. Mendenhall's
battery with the right Terrill's battery with the left. The division
gained the south side of the Peach Orchard at 2 p.m., the Confederates
retiring. This closed the conflict on the left. The division remained
in line until night and bivouacked with its left in Stuart's camps,
its right near Prentiss's headquarters.
Tenth Brigade
- Colonel Jacob Ammen
Nineteenth
Brigade - Colonel William B. Hazen
Twenty-second
Brigade - Colonel Sanders D. Bruce
Cavalry