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Battle Map 2

Hood's Division Retakes Miller's Cornfield (7-8 am)

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 ...

 

Units on this Map:

[Federal]
19th Indiana Infantry
12th Massachusetts Infantry
13th Massachusetts Infantry
2nd Massachusetts Infantry
10th Maine Infantry
1st New York Light Artillery, Battery B
1st New York Light Artillery, Battery L
21st New York Infantry
22nd New York Infantry
23rd New York Infantry
24th New York Infantry
28th New York Infantry
30th New York Infantry
35th New York Infantry
80th New York Infantry (20th Militia)
83rd New York Infantry (9th Militia)
84th New York Infantry (14th Brooklyn)
10th Pennsylvania Reserves
11th Pennsylvania Infantry
11th Pennsylvania Reserves
124th Pennsylvania Infantry
125th Pennsylvania Infantry
128th Pennsylvania Infantry
12th Pennsylvania Reserves
1st Pennsylvania Light Artillery, Battery F
3rd Pennsylvania Reserves
46th Pennsylvania Infantry
4th Pennsylvania Reserves
5th Pennsylvania Reserves
6th Pennsylvania Reserves
7th Pennsylvania Reserves
8th Pennsylvania Reserves
90th Pennsylvania Infantry
9th Pennsylvania Reserves
Collis' (PA) Independent Company
2nd United States Sharpshooters
4th United States Artillery, Battery B
5th United States Artillery, Battery C
2nd Wisconsin Infantry
3rd Wisconsin Infantry
6th Wisconsin Infantry
7th Wisconsin Infantry

[Confederate]
4th Alabama Infantry
18th Georgia Infantry
21st Georgia Infantry
44th Georgia Infantry
4th Georgia Infantry
11th Mississippi Infantry
2nd Mississippi Infantry
1st North Carolina Infantry
3rd North Carolina Infantry
6th North Carolina Infantry
Hampton (SC) Legion
1st Texas Infantry
4th Texas Infantry
5th Texas Infantry
Jordan's Bedford (VA) Artillery
Lee (VA) Artillery
Rockbridge (VA) Artillery

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 16895]

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