Battle Map 12

Burnside's Ninth Corps Climbs Toward Sharpsburg (3-4 pm)

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 ...

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Source: The Antietam Battlefield Board.1

Notes

1 The battlefield position studies by the Antietam Battlefield Board (1904, 1908) are described in the Atlas, and are available online from the Library of Congress.
Carman, Ezra Ayres, and Lieut. Col. Emmor B. Cope, Hays W. Mattern, Charles H. Ourand, Atlas of the Battlefield of Antietam, 14 maps, Washington DC: US Government Printing Office, 1908 [AotW citation 16906]

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