...led to retire. In obedience to orders, General Pillow proceeded across the river to the relief of Colonel Tappan, taking with him for this service Colonel R. M. Russell's, Colonel J. V. Wright's, Colonel Edward Pickett 's and Colonel Thomas J. Freeman's regiments of Tennessee volunteers. It was about seven o'clock in the morning when Colonel Tappan received information from General Polk of the threatened attack,...