A reply to LHares and the post of Oct 12, With respect. The sunken road position can be considered to be of three sectors. The first, The Duncan field sector ran from the the Main Corinth road, southeast to the Eastern Corinth road.
The second sector was the area commonly referred to as the Hornets' Nest which started at the Eastern Corinth road and went southeast to the area of the Manse George Cabin. The hornets' nest was an area above the Daniel Davis wheat field which had thick underbrush and some trees. The underbrush concealed the union positions from the attacking rebels. The firing by both sides caused a sound of hornets, as the veterans said, as the bullets went through the thick underbrush
The third sector was from the Manse George cabin easterly to the Hamburg-Savannah road. This was the area of the Sarah Bell fields and orchard. Bloody pond is just above the junction of the sunken road with the Ham/Sav road.

The peach orchard was not involvement with the Hornets' nest, sunken road yes. True, General Johnston was hit while behind the attacking troops of Shavers brigade but he had been leading the brigade forward from the starting position. He was close enough to have been hit seven? times and his horse four times. Its a misnomer to say he was in the rear. This attack was aimed at General Hurlbut's union position in the peach orchard and not against Prentiss in the Hornet's nest.
As stated in earlier post, he was hit and wounded in the cotton field on the west side of the Hamburg-Savannah road where he was found by Governor Harris. The Governor led Johnston in a southeast direction across the Ham/Sav rd to a gulley away from the fighting where Johnston collapsed and was about to fall off his horse. Others soon arrived and rendered aid to no avail.
With rspect to other posters on this topic.
Ron