But Sherman would not give up.

The fiercest attacks broke in vain on his iron front.

McClernand, with whom he had quarreled the day before as to who should command the army while Grant was away, came up with reinforcements, and seeing what the fearless and resolute general had done, yielded him the place.
The last of the charges broke for the time upon Sherman, and his exhausted regiment uttered a shout of triumph, but on both sides of him the Southern troops drove their enemy back and yet further back.
Breckinridge, along Lick Creek, was pushing everything before him.

The bishop-general was doing well.

Many of the Northern troops had not yet recovered from their surprise.