...s aid also, and arrived during the night, with his brigade of J,168 Tennesseans. On the morning of the 7th General Butler sent forward against the Confederate advance at Walthall a division under General Brooks , of five brigades, with the usual proportion of artillery, and supported by cavalry. The action that ensued was open-field fighting and severely contested. Hagood's command of 1,500 men lost: 22 ...