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:

[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.
Cope, Lieut. Col. E. B., and H. W. Mattern, Charles H. Ourand, Gen. E. A. Carman, Atlas of the Battlefield of Antietam, Washington DC: US Government Printing Office, 1908 [AotW citation 16895]

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