Virtual tour of the Hagerstown Pike by markers. Use the First >> button above to see these markers in sequence.| Maryland (Washington County), Sharpsburg — Massachusetts State Monument | | | (Center Panel): Erected by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts to mark the position held by her troops at the Battle of Antietam September XVII MDCCLXII (Left Plaque): Second Infantry Seventh Infantry Ninth Infantry Tenth Infantry Twelfth Infantry Thirteenth Infantry Fifteenth Infantry Eighteenth Infantry Nineteenth Infantry Twentieth Infantry Twenty-First Infantry (Right Plaque): Twenty-Second Infantry Twenty-Eighth Infantry Twenty-Ninth Infantry Thirty-Second Infantry . . . — Map (db m6053) HM | | Maryland (Washington County), Sharpsburg — New Jersey State Monument | | | (Each unit is detailed in a separate tablet): Thirteenth New Jersey Infantry Colonel Ezra A. Carman, Comanding Third Brigade, First Division Twelfth Corps ————— Here this regiment, seventeen days after leaving home, met "its Baptism of fire," September 17, 1862. The first to fall was Captain Hugh C. Irish, later in the day the regiment was heavily engaged in rear of Dunkard Church, its loss during the day was 102. In the Army of the Potomac, and . . . — Map (db m6055) HM | | Maryland (Washington County), Sharpsburg — Indiana State Monument | | | 7th Infantry 14th Infantry 19th Infantry 27th Infantry 3d Cavalry Indiana — Map (db m6054) HM | | Maryland (Washington County), Sharpsburg — 13th New Jersey Infantry | | | September 17, 1862 —————— Center of regiment at 10.20 a.m. facing west. Part of the right wing was across the road. — Map (db m6060) HM | | Maryland (Washington County), Sharpsburg — 54 — Twelfth Army Corps Gordon's Brigade, Williams' Division | | | U.S.A. Twelfth Army Corps. Gordon's Brigade. Williams' Division Brig. Gen. George H. Gordon, Commanding. Organization. 2d Massachusetts Infantry, 3d Wisconsin Infantry, 27th Indiana Infantry, 13th New Jersey Infantry, 107th New York Infantry, Zouaves D' Afrique, Pennsylvania. September 17, 1862, No. 1 Gordon's Brigade formed line at daybreak on the Hoffman Farm and advanced in a southernly direction in support of Hooker's Corps. The 107th New York was detached to support Cochran's Battery . . . — Map (db m6131) HM | | Maryland (Washington County), Sharpsburg — 2 — Doubleday's Division, First Army Corps | | | U.S.A. Doubleday's Division, First Army Corps, Brigadier Gen. Abner Doubleday, Commanding. (September 17, 1862.)Doubleday's Division, on the right of the First Corps, moved to the attack at 5/30 a.m., September 17, in the following order: Gibbon's Brigade in advance, supported by Phelps' and Patrick's Brigades. Hofmann's Brigade was held in reserve. The three brigades of Gibbon, Phelps and Patrick - advanced, their right resting on the Hagerstown Pike, until Gibbon reached a point 135 yards . . . — Map (db m6127) HM | | Maryland (Washington County), Sharpsburg — 20 — Twelfth Army Corps Goodrich's Brigade, Greene's Division | | | U.S.A. Twelfth Army Corps. Goodrich's Brigade, Greene's Division Col. William B. Goodrich, 60th New York Infantry, Commanding, Organization. 3d Delaware Infantry, Purnell Legion Maryland Infantry, 60th New York Infantry, 78th New York Infantry. September 17, 1862. Goodrich's Brigade was detached from its division, and supported Gibbon's and Patrick's Brigades of the First Army Corps in the field and woods west of this point. — Map (db m6113) HM | | Maryland (Washington County), Sharpsburg — 3 — Doubleday's Division, First Army Corps | | | U.S.A. Doubleday's Division, First Army Corps. Brigadier Gen. Abner Doubleday, Commanding. (September 17, 1862.) Doubleday's Division moved from its bivouac on the Joseph Poffenberger Farm, north of this, at 5/30 a.m. on the 17th, in the following order: Gibbon's Brigade in advance, supported by Phelps' and Patrick's Brigades; Hoffman's Brigade was held in reserve. The three brigades advanced with their right resting on the Hagerstown Pike, until Gibbon reached this point - Phelps 25 yards . . . — Map (db m6108) HM | | Maryland (Washington County), Sharpsburg — 103 — Battery B, 4th U.S. Artillery | | | U.S.A. Battery B, 4th U.S. Artillery Capt. Joseph B. Campbell, U.S.A. Commanding. (September 17, 1862.) Early in the morning this battery advanced from its bivouac north of Jos. Poffenberger's, passing through the North Woods to the ploughed field immediately south of them. One section, under command of Lieut. James Stewart, was advanced to a position east of D.R. Miller's house and about 205 yards from this road, and shelled the woods around and north of the Dunkard Church. In a few . . . — Map (db m6105) HM | | Maryland (Washington County), Sharpsburg — 31 — 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, 10th,11th, and 12th Pennsylvania Reserves. (September 17, 1862.) Anderson's Brigade advanced from the North Woods about 6:30 a.m. in support of Doubleday's Division engaged on either side of the road south of this point. Midway between the North Woods and D.R. Miller's, the 10th regiment crossed the road moving west about 700 yards became engaged with . . . — Map (db m6100) HM | | Maryland (Washington County), Sharpsburg — 12 — First Army Corps Magilton's Brigade, Meade's Division | | | U.S.A. First Army Corps. Magilton's Brigade, Meade's Division. Col A.L. Magilton, 4th Pennsylvania Reserves, Commanding. (September 17, 1862.) Magilton's Brigade advanced from the North Woods about 6:30 a.m. and, passing a few yards east of D.R. Miller's House, formed line on the left of Anderson's Brigade. A part of the Brigade, supported by the 124th Pennsylvania, of the Twelfth Corps, engaged the enemy in the north edge of the Cornfield. Soon after, the Brigade was ordered to the left to . . . — Map (db m6091) HM | | Maryland (Washington County), Sharpsburg — 105 — Battery C, 5th U.S. Artillery | | | U.S.A. Battery C, 5th U.S. Artillery Captain Dunbar R. Ransom, U.S.A. Commanding, (September 16-17, 1862.) On the evening of September 16th, Battery C, 5th U.S. Artillery came into battery 370 yards east of the Hagerstown Pike, on the south edge of the North Woods and opened fire upon a Confederate battery in the open field west of the Pike and north of the Dunkard Church, causing it to retire. After dark the Battery was withdrawn and bivouacked 75 yards east of J. Poffenberger's Barn. On . . . — Map (db m6087) HM | | Maryland (Washington County), Sharpsburg — The 7th Indiana Infantry | | | 2nd Brigade, 1st Division, 1st Army Corps, Major Ira G. Groover Commanding, Occupied this position at 4 p.m. September 17th 1862. — Map (db m6065) HM |
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