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circled Overton’s Hill, on which Clayton’s division wasplaced, supported by Brantley’s brigade, while Stevenson’sand Johnson’s divisions extended the line to the west till itunited with Loring’s division of Stewart’s corps.
On our left Steedman had kept his men active. He hadattacked and carried an earthwork near the Baines houseearly in the day, and had followed up the progressive move-ment of the army, harassing the enemy’s right as it drewback.
About nightfall there was a strong appearance of a pre-cipitate retreat of the enemy, and Thomas ordered Wood to move his corps farther to the left, reaching the Franklinturnpike, if possible, and to push southward upon it. Thisdirection was a wise one if the enemy continued his retreat,for it prevented the crowding of the army upon a singleroad; but had Thomas been sure that Hood would reformupon the new line, he would, no doubt, have continued thegeneral movement of the day by extending his forces to theright. The darkness stopped Wood before he had reachedthe Franklin road, and he bivouacked where night overtookhim, ready to continue the march in the morning. Hisright was near Smith’s left, and his own left was diagonallytoward the rear, in the works which Lee’s corps had aban-doned on the hither side of Brown’s Creek.
For the results obtained, the losses had been astonishinglylight. Wood reports only three hundred and fifty casualtiesin his corps, Smith’s were about the same, and Schofield’snot over one hundred and fifty. Those of Steedman and ofWilson were proportionately small, though the exact figurescannot be given, as the losses of the first and second daysare not discriminated in any report but Wood ’s. Sixteenpieces of artillery and twelve hundred prisoners had beentaken, and Hood’s whole line had been driven back fully