During the battle, Nancy Morton lived with her parents in the William Morton house west of this location, and when the fighting intensified, the Mortons and three other families scrambled into the root cellar for protection. Recalling the day in 1896, Nancy said they remained in the cellar until dark, though she went into the house several times for food, bedclothes, and wraps for the children while fighting raged through and around the house and shots flew like hail; after the firing ceased, Mrs. Borden mounted her pony with her three children, passed the guards, and rode to Mrs. Mock's in safety. Nancy later married Rufus Staples and spent the last years of her life in the Morton House, which survived the battle. One of the children in the cellar was nine-year-old Caldonia Ann Borden, who wrote a memoir in 1937 at age 84 remembering that they watched the battle until two o'clock in the afternoon before taking shelter among apples, potatoes, and barrels of food, where she sat on a barrel of vinegar holding her little sister. After dark, those in the cellar emerged to find a dead man across the door and wounded and dying men all around, while men worked through the night helping the wounded, giving Yankees and Rebels the same care; four died that night, one soldier's leg was amputated, and some of the civilians became sick. About twenty men, women, and children huddled in the Morton cellar for protection from shells and bullets during the battle. In this sector, General James G. Blunt's Union Division arrived from the northwest at about 2:30 P.M. and attacked the Confederates until darkness ended the battle. Two cannon shots signaled Blunt's arrival, and although Union infantry advanced against the Confederates, a rebel counterattack forced them back. Captain John W. Rabb, U.S.A., commanding the Second Battery of Indiana Volunteers, reported firing shell into a straw pile near timber where large bodies of the enemy swarmed, igniting it, then opening with canister for about fifteen minutes and driving the enemy back to the woods before darkness closed the fighting. General Mosby M. Parsons reported that his Confederates endured furious assaults supported by three batteries and concentrated musketry aimed at his center, while enemy columns massed on his extreme left; he sent forward a reserve regiment, and General John S. Roane ordered Colonel John B. Clark's Missouri regiment to support him. Parsons said the enemy was badly beaten, and as the sun grew low and the enemy advanced again, he resolved to charge with the bayonet. Colonel Alexander Early Steen died leading the last charge of the day.