The weight of superior Union numbers was beginning to tell. Gregg determined that a retreat was necessary, and ordered the 1st Tennessee Battalion to bluff an attack against Crocker's men, covering the withdrawal of the spent 7th Texas and 3rd Tennessee. The 10th and 30th Tennessee (Consolidated) began to withdraw on its own, then attacked a Union regiment from Ohio, only to be driven back by additional Union forces. Six companies of the 3rd Kentucky Mounted Infantry Regiment arrived on the field unexpectedly, and helped cover the retreat. Gregg's men fell back through the town of Raymond and onto the road to Jackson, before stopping for the night in some woods near a local cemetery. They were joined by 1,000 men under the command of Brigadier General W. H. T. Walker that evening. Led by the 20th Ohio, Union soldiers entered Raymond, where they found and consumed a meal of fried chicken and lemonade that area women had prepared for Gregg's men, expecting a Confederate victory. Gregg's men abandoned their wounded and fell back to Jackson the next day; McPherson did not pursue, citing the difficulty of the terrain.