Until near noon on May 3rd, fighting was severe. When the infantry’s ammunition was exhausted and repeated calls for more went unanswered, the line was forced to retire to the breastworks. The dead and most of the wounded were left on the field. To screen his movements, the enemy set the forest on fire, and many who lay there perished in the flames. The enemy followed and reached the edge of the wood just in front of the works, when the batteries opened a murderous fire that caused him to recoil. Col. Edgert Gregory Tyler’s 1st Brigade of Humphrey’s Division, V Corps, consisting of the 91st, 126th, 129th, and 134th Pennsylvania Regiments, together with the effective use of artillery, finally halted the Confederate attack.