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Commanding Officer on the Antietam Campaign:
Capt. John A. Tompkins
Arms:
6 10-pdr. Parrott
The battery expended 1,050 rounds during the battle.
The Parrotts were exchanged for 6 - 3 in. Ordnance Rifles after the Battle.
This Battery's Chain of Command:
Army - Army of the Potomac
Corps - Second Army Corps
Division - 2nd Division, 2nd Corps
Brigade - 2nd Division, 2nd Corps Artillery
Statistics
Initial Strength: 109; Killed in Action (KIA): 4; Wounded (WIA): 13;
Losses, % of Initial Strength: 15.6%
Maps Showing this Unit
Detail Map #3: Mansfield's Twelfth Corps Attacks into Miller's Cornfield (7-9 am)
Detail Map #4: Greene's High-Water Mark in the West Woods (9am-noon)
Detail Map #5: Sedgwick is Flanked in the West Woods (9-10am)
Detail Map #9: Richardson's Division Attacks the Sunken Road (10-11 am)
Battlefield Tablets for this Unit
Tablet #35: Second Army Corps - 15 Sep, 7 AM to 15 Sep, 8 PM
Tablet #115: Second Army Corps - 15 Sep, 9 AM to 17 Sep, 7 AM
Tablet #120: Army of the Potomac - 17 Sep, 5 AM to 17 Sep, 12 PM
Tablet #116: Second Army Corps - 17 Sep, 6 AM to 17 Sep, 10 AM
Tablet #36: Sedgwick's Division, Second Army Corps - 17 Sep, 7 AM to 17 Sep, 10 AM
We have 23 individuals in the AotW database who were on the Maryland Campaign with this unit:
| Co. | Rank | Name | Casualty? | Details* |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| -- | Pvt | Aldrich, Thomas M. |   | |
| -- | Pvt | Bosworth, Joseph T. | KIA 09/17 | |
| -- | Pvt | Budlong, Edward Forrester | WIA 09/17 | |
| -- | Pvt | Cargill, Charles | WIA 09/17 | |
| -- | Corp | Child, Benjamin Ham | WIA 09/17 | |
| -- | Pvt | Church, John | WIA 09/17 | |
| -- | Lt | Hazard, Jeffrey | | |
| -- | Pvt | Larkin, Patrick | WIA 09/17 | |
| -- | Pvt | Lawrence, John H. | KIA 09/17 | |
| -- | Pvt | Leach, John F. | | |
| -- | Lt | Mason, Charles Felix | | |
| -- | Lt | Newton, Henry Winstanley | | |
| -- | Corp | Phillips, Francis E. | WIA 09/17 | |
| -- | Pvt | Phillips, Frederick A. | WIA 09/17 | |
| -- | Pvt | Preston, Henry A. | WIA 09/17 | |
| -- | Pvt | Rayner, Robert | WIA 09/17 | |
| -- | Sgt | Reed, Charles M. | KIA 09/17 | |
| -- | Pvt | Reichardt, Theodore | WIA 09/17 | |
| -- | Pvt | Sherman, Sheffield L. | WIA 09/17 | |
| -- | Pvt | Stone, Edwin | KIA 09/17 | |
| -- | Capt | Tompkins, John Almy | | |
| -- | Pvt | Wilder, Abel | WIA 09/17 | |
| -- | Pvt | Zimala, John | WIA 09/17 | |
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