...cClernand's regiments and the remnants of Sherman's command. Hearing from a staff officer that a brigade was inactive in that quarter, and, apparently, without a commander, General Beauregard sent Colonel Ferguson , of his staff, to lead it into action, under the direction of General Hardee. This was part of the brigade of Colonel Pond, who, far from being inactive, was, in fact, reconnoitring so as to ascert...