Confederate Battery

Baltimore (MD) Artillery

Commanding Officer at Sharpsburg:
Capt. J. B. Brockenbrough

Arms:
  1   3-in. Ordnance Rifle
  1   Blakely
  1   10-pdr. Parrott
  1   12-pdr. howitzer

This Battery's Chain of Command:
  Army - Army of Northern Virginia
  Corps - Jackson's Command
  Division - Jackson's Division
  Brigade - Jackson's Division Artillery

On the Sharpsburg Campaign

According to a tablet on the battlefield at Antietam, the battery's single 12 pounder howitzer was of iron rather than the usual bronze, and was unique at the battle. Thanks to Richard Smith for posting the tablet photo to the Facebook All About Antietam group.

Maps Showing this Unit

Detail Map #1: Hookers I Corps Sweeps Down the Pike
Detail Map #4: Greene's High-Water Mark in the West Woods
Detail Map #5: Sedgwick is Flanked in the West Woods

Battlefield Tablets for this Unit

Tablet #314: Jackson's Command - 15 Sep, 4 PM to 16 Sep, 10 PM
Tablet #381: Jackson's Division, Jackson's Command - 16 Sep, 4 PM to 16 Sep, 7 PM
Tablet #315: Jackson's Command - 17 Sep, 5 AM to 17 Sep, 10 AM
Tablet #382: Jackson's Division, Jackson's Command - 17 Sep, 5 AM to 17 Sep, 7 AM
Tablet #382, cont: Jackson's Division, Jackson's Command - 17 Sep, 7 AM to 17 Sep, 9 AM

We have one individual in the AotW database for this unit:

Co.	Rank	Name	Casualty?	Details*
--	Capt	Brockenbrough, John Bowyer

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