jackson gave ashby permission to attack while he moved the remainder of his forces up to join ashby. unfortunately, ashley's information was bad. while the confederates thought they were attacking only four regiments (totalling about 3,000 men), there were actually about three times that number of union soldiers. the remaining union troops remained out of sight during the skirmish. general shields was wounded in the fighting and turned command of the union division over to colonel nathan kimball.