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French's Division Hits the Sunken Road

9 O'Clock A.M., 17 September 1862

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The Situation: After losing touch with Gen Sumner and Sedgwick's 2nd Division of the Second Corps, who had crossed the Antietam first, General French pushed his 3rd Division forward on to the battlefield about 9:00 AM on September 17th. Angling slightly left (south) of the path of the lead division, he ran into elements of General DH Hill's Division, posted in a strong position in a sunken road at the center of the Confederate line ...

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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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