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Hood's Division Retakes the Cornfield

7:20 O'Clock A.M., 17 September 1862

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The Situation: Confederate General Hood's counterattack has knocked the Federals back through the East Woods and out of farmer Miller's cornfield, but by 7:20 AM the men of his Division are being hit from from front and flank taking serious losses, and are compelled to begin falling back ...

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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