A Virtual Tour by Markers of the North Woods Use the First >> button above to see these markers in sequence.| Maryland (Washington County), Sharpsburg — 4 — First Army Corps Hoffmann's Brigade, Doubleday's Division | | | U.S.A. First Army Corps. Hoffmann's Brigade, Doubleday's Division. Lieut. Col. J. Wm. Hoffman, 56th Penn. Inf., Commanding. Organization. 7th Indiana Infantry. 76th New York Infantry. 95th New York Infantry. 56th Pennsylvania Infantry. September 17, 1862. Hoffmann's Brigade was held in support of the Corps Artillery. About noon it was moved to the left, in support of the artillery of the First and Second Corps. In the afternoon it was returned to the right where it remained until the close . . . — Map (db m5828) | | Maryland (Washington County), Sharpsburg — H — Patrick's Brigade First Army Corps | | | U.S.A. Patrick's Brigade, First Army Corps. On the night of September 16, 1862, Patrick's Brigade of Doubleday's Division bivouacked in line of battle on the east side of this road, facing west. This tablet marks the left of the brigade line, which extended northerly about 320 yards, through a triangular strip of woods. — Map (db m5826) | | Maryland (Washington County), Sharpsburg — 25 — First Army Corps Artillery, Doubleday's Division | | | U.S.A. First Army Corps, Artillery, Doubleday's Division, Capt. J. Albert Monroe, 1st R.I. Light Artillery, Commanding. 1st New Hampshire Battery, Battery D, 1st Rhode Island Light Artillery, Battery L, New York Light Artillery, Battery B, United States Artillery. September 16, 1862. The artillery of Doubleday's Division went into position on the night of Sept. 16, 1862, on the high plateau about 22 yards east of this point. During the night the first New Hampshire Battery was advanced to . . . — Map (db m5839) | | Maryland (Washington County), Sharpsburg — A — Union Line of Battle | | | U.S.A. Union Line of Battle Meade's Division. First Army Corps. Pennsylvania Reserves. Evening of September 16, 1862. — Map (db m5883) | | Maryland (Washington County), Sharpsburg — 24 — First Army Corps Anderson's Brigade, Meade's Division | | | U.S.A. First Army Corps. Anderson's Brigade, Meade's Division. Lieut. Col. Robert Anderson, 9th Penn. Reserve, Commanding. Organization. 9th Pennsylvania Reserves, 11th Pennsylvania Reserves, 10th Pennsylvania Reserves, 12th Pennsylvania Reserves. (September 17, 1862.) Anderson's Brigade advanced from this point about 6/30 a.m., in support of Gibbon's, Phelps' and Patrick's Brigades of Doubleday's Division. Midway between the North Woods and the D.R. Miller house, the 10th Regiment was sent . . . — Map (db m5884) | | Maryland (Washington County), Sharpsburg — B — First Army Corps | | | U.S.A. First Army Corps. Anderson's Brigade of Meade's Division bivouacked in this low field the night of September 16, 1862. Its outposts were established in the south edge of the wood in front and beyond the Hagerstown Pike to the west. — Map (db m5899) | | Maryland (Washington County), Sharpsburg — 7th Regiment Pennsylvania Reserve Volunteer Infantry | | | 36th Regiment in line, 2nd Brigade. 3rd Division, 1st Corps. Organized June 26, 1861. Mustered out June 16, 1864. The regiment arrived on the field on the afternoon of September 16, 1862. Formed at this point on the morning of the 17th. Advanced about 600 yards south and became engaged with Hood's Confederate Division. ————— Casualties at Antietam Killed 12 Wounded 60 Total 72 ————— Recruited three companies in Philadelphia. Two . . . — Map (db m5900) | | Maryland (Washington County), Sharpsburg — Clara Barton | | | (Upper Plaque):During the Battle of Antietam September 17, 1862 Clara Barton brought supplies and nursing aid to the wounded on this battlefield. The act of love and mercy led to the birth of the present American National Red Cross (Lower Plaque):This symbolic red cross has been made from a brickfrom the chimney of the home where Clara Barton was born at North Oxford, Massachusetts on Christmas Day, 1821. — Map (db m5901) | | Maryland (Washington County), Sharpsburg — "God has indeed remembered us" | | | At a farmhouse and barn not far from here, Clara Barton labored without sleep for three days, comforting the wounded of the Battle of Antietam with water, food, and medical supplies. Clara Barton, founder of the American Red Cross, began her lifetime of mercy work at the onset of the Civil War. She spent the war's first year gathering medical supplies from Union citizens. Hearing gruesome reports from the front, she pleaded with the Army to permit her to bring these supplies to the battlefield . . . — Map (db m5902) | | Maryland (Washington County), Sharpsburg — Clara Barton | | | "I have been permitted to stand by your loved ones when the trial hour came..." For some, service to their country ended with the Civil War. For Clara Barton, this was the beginning. Barton, a forty year old teacher, patent clerk and patriot, was frustrated by reports of inadequate relief supplies at battlefields. She gathered needed items and transported them to the front. At Antietam, Miss Barton followed the sound of artillery and arrived on this part of the battlefield. She . . . — Map (db m20671) | | Maryland (Washington County), Sharpsburg — "The Battle Opened" | | | Dawn was at 5:43 a.m. By 6 a.m. Southern defenders could see the Union's First Corps: "In apparent double battle lines, the Federals were moving toward us at charge bayonets, common time, and the sunbeams falling on their well polished guns and bayonets gave a glamor and show at once fearful and entrancing." Union General Joseph Hooker also saw bayonets in the morning sun: "We had not proceeded far before I discovered that a heavy force of the enemy had taken possession of a . . . — Map (db m5903) | | Maryland (Washington County), Sharpsburg — The Culmination of Another Great Tragedy was at Hand | | | Pvt. William Goodhue, 3rd Wisconsin Infantry The night before the battle, the Union First and Twelfth Corps crossed Antietam Creek and marched onto the farm fields just behind you. It was the First Corps, commanded by Gen. Joseph Hooker, that opened the battle the following morning. "A foggy morning was the 17th of September," remembered Sgt. Austin Stearns, "and each army was astir and preparing for the deadly struggle that the lowest private knew was to take place." Pvt. Frederick . . . — Map (db m20672) | | Maryland (Washington County), Sharpsburg — 4th Regiment Pennsylvania Reserve Volunteer Corps | | | (Rear Inscription): 4th Regt. Pennsylvania Reserve Volunteer Corps.33rd Regt. in line, 2nd Brigade. 3rd Division, 1st Army Corps. Organized June 10th, 1861. Mustered out June 17th, 1864. ————— The regt. arrived on the field on the afternoon of September 16th, 1862. Formed at this point on the morning of the 17th. Advanced about 600 yards south and became engaged with Hood's Confederate Division. ————— Casualties at Antietam . . . — Map (db m5904) | | Maryland (Washington County), Sharpsburg — D — 1st Corps, 3rd Division, 2nd Brigade Bivouac | | | U.S.A. On the night of September 16, 1862, three regiments of Magilton's Brigade, Meade's Division bivouacked in the North Woods, a few feet south of this point in support <to> Seymour's skirmishers; one regiment was in second line, in the open ground north of this road. — Map (db m5905) | | Maryland (Washington County), Sharpsburg — 16 — First Army Corps Magilton's Brigade, Meade's Division | | | U.S.A. First Army Corps. Magilton's Brigade, Meade's Division, Col. Albert Magilton, 4th Penn. Reserves, Commanding. Organization. 3rd Penn. Reserve Infantry, 4th Penn. Reserve Infantry, 7th Penn. Reserve Infantry, 8th Penn. Reserve Infantry, September 17, 1862. Magilton's Brigade formed line at 5:30 a.m. on the left of Anderson's Brigade. At 630 a.m. it advanced through the North Woods, deployed in the open fields and had reached the north fence of the Cornfield when it was sent to the . . . — Map (db m5910) | | Maryland (Washington County), Sharpsburg — 3rd Regt. Pennsylvania Reserve Corps | | | 32nd Reg. Penna. Vol. Inf. 2nd Brigade, 3rd Division, 1st Corps. Arriving on the field on the afternoon of September 16th, Lieut. Col. John Clark, com'd'g. the regiment immediately deployed eight companies as skirmishers. When the 2nd Brigade advanced on the morning of September 17th, the regiment fell into line, and 600 yards south of this point became engaged with Hood's Confederate Division. Number engaged about 200 Casualties at Antietam. Killed 12 Wounded 34 Total 46 3 companies . . . — Map (db m5912) | | Maryland (Washington County), Sharpsburg — 15 — Meade's Division, First Army Corps | | | U.S.A. Meade's Division, First Army Corps, Maj. Gen. George G. Meade, Commanding, September 16, 1862. Meade's Division crossed the Antietam at the Sumner Bridge at 2 p.m. Sept. 16, and moved in a westerly direction toward the position of the enemy. At 6 p.m. Meade encountered Stuart's cavalry on the Smoketown Road and Hood's Division in the East Woods on the Smoketown Road. Seymour's Brigade was deployed and engaged the enemy, supported by Magilton and Anderson. The fighting ceased at dark . . . — Map (db m5913) | | Maryland (Washington County), Sharpsburg — 11 — Meade's Division, First Army Corps | | | U.S.A. Meade's Division, First Army Corps, Maj. Gen. George G. Meade, Commanding. September 17, 1862. Meade's Division formed at about 6:30 a.m. in the following order: Seymour's Brigade on the left and in advance, Magilton's and Anderson's Brigades in columns of masses in suport. As Anderson and Magilton emerged from the North Woods, they were deployed to fill the gap between Doubleday's and Ricketts' Divisions. Magilton's Brigade was soon withdrawn and moved to the left in support of . . . — Map (db m5915) | | Maryland (Washington County), Sharpsburg — 1 — First Army Corps | | | U.S.A. First Army Corps. Maj. Gen. Joseph Hooker, Commanding. September 16, 1862. The First Army Corps moved from its bivouac near Keedysville at 2 p.m. on Sept 16. Doubleday's Division crossed the Antietam at Pry's Ford; Rickett's and Meade's Divisions at the upper bridge. The divisions advanced in parallel columns, in a westerly direction, until 6 p.m., when Meade's Division encountered the enemy near the East Woods. The corps was then formed in line of battle, facing south and . . . — Map (db m5918) | | Maryland (Washington County), Sharpsburg — 8th Regt. Pennsylvania Reserver Volunteer Corps | | | (At the base of the front):37th Regiment of the Line (Inscription on the Back): 8th Pa. Reserve Vol. Inf. Major Silas M. Baily. 2nd Brigade, 3rd Div., 1st Corps. Advanced about 800 yards south and became engaged with Hood's Confederate Division. Loss at Antietam. Killed 12, Wounded 44. Engagements. Mechanicsville, Va. June 26th, 1862. Gaines Mills, Va. June 27th, 1862. Charles City Cross Roads, Va. June 30th, 1862. Malvern Hill, Va. July 1st, 1862. Second Bull Run, Va. Aug. . . . — Map (db m5919) |
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