[ Detail Map 11 ]

Burnside Climbs Toward Sharpsburg

3:30 O'Clock P. M., 17 September 1862

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The Situation: After crossing the Bridge at about 1 P. M., and organizing and re-supplying his troops, Gen Burnside's starts his IX Corps rolling toward the town of Sharpsburg at about 3 P. M. on 17 September ...

Source: The original battlefield position studies by the Antietam Battlefield Board (1904) are described in the Atlas of the Battlefield of Antietam, and are available online from the Library of Congress.

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