The battle’s turning point came when Garfield ordered Lt. Col. George W. Monroe and a detachment of the 22nd Kentucky to charge up the steep ridge opposite Graveyard Point and drive the Confederate sharpshooters back to their main line. While Moore’s Virginians were contesting Pardee’s advance, several companies of the 5th Kentucky moved down the spur opposite Graveyard Point toward Garfield’s main position, raking Graveyard Point with heavy rifle fire until a sharp volley from Garfield’s reserves drove them back. As the battle continued, Cranor’s 40th Ohio arrived at Graveyard Point, and Garfield selected 150 men from his Ohio regiments and the 22nd Kentucky for Cranor to lead across the creek to reinforce Pardee. He then chose 120 Kentuckians, placed them under Monroe, and ordered him to drive the Confederate sharpshooters from the ridge opposite Graveyard Point. Kentuckian fought Kentuckian as Monroe and his men battled up the narrow ridge toward the crest, where a large detachment of the 5th Kentucky, posted behind a huge boulder, stubbornly contested the Union assault. Monroe ordered a bayonet charge, and his men surged up the hill and over the rocks. Three Union soldiers leaped onto the boulder as the Confederates fell back toward their main line, but parting shots brought down two of the three, including Private Nelson Boggs of the 14th Kentucky, who was killed. Although the Confederates continued to resist, steady pressure from Union rifles slowly forced them to withdraw, and the fighting ceased around 5 p.m. after Marshall ordered the position abandoned.