the second wave of hood's assault was the brigades of henry benning and george "tige" anderson. they detected a gap in birney's division line: to ward's right, there was a considerable gap before the brigade of régis de trobriand began. anderson's line smashed into trobriand and the gap at the southern edge of the wheatfield. trobriand wrote that the confederates "converged on me like an avalanche, but we piled all the dead and wounded men in our front." the union defense was fierce, and anderson's brigade pulled back; its commander was wounded in the leg and was carried from the battle.