the southern army was pounding at sherman on the right side, they were making some progress, but thcistance, and t now famous like seminary ridge. it was called the hornet's nest, and rather thannd this often happens in military of ground that is symbolic of a will of people. they kept throwing people at it in frontal assaults and this hornet's nest was surrounded, it started to wind, but, again, it did not break under the jent and the key thing to -- under the remember is that the day was getting late. it was 40,000 against 40,000. they had surprise and momentum. but they had to push the union army into the tennessee river before reinforcements came ner wahls had and they had lost a critical three to six hours, johnson came over and said that we need a bay net. -- ba -- he charged the hornet's nend trip me up, men, go get them. and he fell out of the sattle. people thought he fainted. he just dismissed his doctor who could have helped him. he fell off his horse, nobody knew what was wrong, he died in 15 minutes. it turned out that the femur artery behind his knee was hit and it had a magne