Battle Map 3

Mansfield's Twelfth Corps Attacks into Miller's Cornfield (7-9 am)

8:40 O'Clock A.M., 17 September 1862

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The Situation: Federal General Mansfield's Twelfth Army Corps troops begin their counterattack through the East Woods and into farmer Miller's Cornfield ...

Units on this Map:

[Federal]
3rd Delaware Infantry
19th Indiana Infantry
27th Indiana Infantry
2nd Massachusetts Infantry
3rd Maryland Infantry
Purnell Legion Infantry
10th Maine Infantry
13th New Jersey Infantry
102nd New York Infantry
107th New York Infantry
1st New York Light Artillery, Battery B
1st New York Light Artillery, Battery L
1st New York Light Artillery, Battery M
21st New York Infantry
23rd New York Infantry
35th New York Infantry
60th New York Infantry
78th New York Infantry
80th New York Infantry (20th Militia)
5th Ohio Infantry
66th Ohio Infantry
7th Ohio Infantry
10th Pennsylvania Reserves
111th Pennsylvania Infantry
11th Pennsylvania Reserves
124th Pennsylvania Infantry
125th Pennsylvania Infantry
128th Pennsylvania Infantry
12th Pennsylvania Reserves
1st Pennsylvania Light Artillery, Battery F
28th Pennsylvania Infantry
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
1st Rhode Island Light Artillery, Battery A
1st Rhode Island Light Artillery, Battery G
4th United States Artillery, Battery B
5th United States Artillery, Battery C
2nd Wisconsin Infantry
3rd Wisconsin Infantry
6th Wisconsin Infantry
7th Wisconsin Infantry

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 16896]

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