as a wagon trace and one of these days, you know, maybe the term sunken will be dropped from the useage, but it is there, it is a post battle term, and it stayed and been applied to the road. what it does do is delineate the federal position, a position the federals will hold from the earliest troops arriving under will wallace's command and occupy on the about 9:00 and be joined by remnants, the markers to the south note and prentiss goes into position about 10. prent advertise retreats through wallace and hirl and he will reorganize in the rear of the two divisions, 5,400 men he began to battle with and gets anywhere from 500 to 600 rally and had joined by the 23rd missouri, 575 souls, so come forward with about 1,200 men and take a position in the center of the union position. wallace's troops on the north to the right of prentiss and to the south and 6,200 men online and enough to constitute about 3,000 more. so there is a large number of troops on this sector. we know that two-thirds of the confederate army 11:00 to noon are engaged against the union right flank there at water oaks