He saw that they were being driven, and that they would lose the hill if not supported.
Instantly he ordered to the rescue five hundred of the Ohio Fortieth and Forty-second, under Major Pardee and Colonel Craven.

They dashed boldly into the stream, holding their cartridge-boxes above their heads, and plunged into the fight, shouting: "Hurrah for Williams and the Hiram boys!" But their position was most critical, for shot, and shell, and canister, and the fire of four thousand muskets are now concentrated upon them.
"This will never do!" cries Garfield.

"Who will volunteer to carry the other mountain ?" Colonel Munroe, of the Twenty-second Kentucky, responded quickly, "We will.

We know every inch of the ground." "Go in, then," cries Garfield, "and give them Columbia!" I have not space to record the varying fortunes of the day.

For five hours the contest rages.