The division then went on the offensive, marching north towards Camden, Arkansas, to attack a garrison of troops commanded by Major General Frederick Steele. Steele's force abandoned Camden before the Confederates could lay it under siege; the Confederates pursued Steele. On April 30, Confederate troops caught up with Steele at the Battle of Jenkins' Ferry. At Jenkins' Ferry, Burn's Brigade charged the Union line and encountered the 33rd Iowa Infantry Regiment and the 12th Kansas Infantry Regiment. Burns' Brigade was able to outflank the Iowa and Kansas regiments, who then fell back. However, Union reinforcements quickly arrived and repulsed the Confederate attack, driving Burns' Brigade back to the area where it had begun its attack. The battle had been fought in a rainstorm; many of the 10th Missouri Infantry's battlefield maneuvers were completed in knee-deep water.