On May 14, 1864, Schofield's Army of the Ohio attacked at Resaca with the divisions of Brigadier General Jacob D. Cox and Brigadier General Henry M. Judah, while Major General John M. Palmer's XIV Corps supported the right flank. Cox's front struck where Hindman's Division joined Hood's Corps with Hardee's Corps. Across rolling, brushy, wooded ground, Judah and Palmer's troops crossed an open field cut by Camp Creek toward Hardee's entrenched line on a heavily wooded ridge. Confusion and difficult terrain led Judah's men to surge ahead of Palmer's support and Cox's division to the north. Brigadier General Nathaniel C. McLean recalled advancing through dense undergrowth, over ridges and valleys, to within musket range of enemy earthworks, then pushing across exposed ground under artillery and musket fire until a bog and creek, crossed in water more than waist deep, broke the attack and forced a retreat, leaving fully one-third of the attacking force killed and wounded on the field, though some men sheltered along the creek bank and kept up fire on the Confederate artillery crews. Judah's and Baird's divisions lost more than 600 men, many taking refuge in the bed of Camp Creek, and on May 18 General Schofield relieved Judah from command for incompetency displayed in handling his division in the battle of the 14th. Along this sector, Kentucky's Orphan Brigade held a sharp angle in the Confederate line as it shifted from Camp Creek back to the east, placing it against both Judah's assault and Cox's division. A member of the 4th Kentucky remembered repeated Union attacks descending from a wooded ridge into a narrow valley before Confederate rifle pits and being repulsed, followed by heavy artillery fire that he called the greatest open field bombardment of the war. Mark's Artillery Battery of Montgomery County, Alabama, serving with four 12-pound Napoleon guns, lost one lieutenant killed, one wounded, several enlisted men killed and wounded, and considerable horses. After repulsing Judah, the Orphan Brigade faced intensified fighting against Cox as Federal columns advanced in full view and some came within seventy-five yards before the brigade opened fire. The struggle was so severe that half of a new corps of sharpshooters were dead or wounded by day's end, while one gunner rescued a kitten trapped between the lines, and the brigade afterward named it Resaca.