although outnumbered and occasionally checked by the stand of some union brigades, the three confederate brigades in action first drove the four union brigades, three from ayres's division and one from crawford's, back across gravelly run. then stansel's brigade drove back union brigadier general henry baxter's brigade and a reformed part of colonel james gwyn's brigade still forward of gravelly run. the forward union regiments of baxter's brigade fell back to find the remainder of the brigade had retreated. in an effort to rally crawford's division, since it was too late to stop ayres's division's retreat, warren himself also came forward, grabbed a regimental flag and tried unsuccessfully to rally the retreating union men. warren's heroic effort was to no avail and he retreated across the creek, stopped the panic and had the scattered regiments reform behind griffin's division. the last organized resistance across gravelly run was colonel john a. kellogg's brigade of crawford's division which was driven back after a fighting retreat. four confederate brigades, only three of which saw any real action against v corps divisions, had thrown back two union divisions of over 5,000 men.