 Nelson resumed his attack and seized the heights overlooking Locust Grove Branch by late afternoon.Beauregard's final counterattack was flanked and repulsed when Grant moved Col. James C. Veatch's brigade forward.Grant later wrote of a close call he and his staff officers had during the fighting in which they personally came under heavy fire, stating "During this second day of the battle I had been moving from right to left and back, to see for myself the progress made.