However, Colonel Chamberlain utilized a bayonet charge very effectively to defend LRT. Another case, of which I am very familiar because it involved my boys from the 2nd Mississippi, occurred at the Wilderness near the close of the day on May 5th. Colonel John Marshall Stone of the 2nd Mississippi, being the senior colonel in the brigade, was in charge of Davis's brigade during the battle (Davis out sick). They were deployed north of the Orange Plank Road. By early evening the brigade had withstood seven separate organized assaults by elements of both II and VI Corps, Army of the Potomac. Stone was out of ammo. All the men sent back to procure more had been killed or wounded. No help seemed to be forthcoming, so he went up and down the brigade line ordering "Fix Bayonets!" and was fully prepared to sacrifice the brigade in a bayonet charge to, temporarily at least, stabilize his position. Just as he was preparing to order the charge however, elements of Kirkland's brigade finally began to arrive to relieve them. So, long story short, bayonet charges still were utilized from time to time, and to good effect occasionally.