Confederate Brigade

Featherston's Brigade

Commanding Officer on the Sharpsburg Campaign:
Col. Carnot Posey

This Brigade's Chain of Command:
  Army - Army of Northern Virginia
  Corps - Longstreet's Command
  Division - Anderson's Division

Units which make up this Brigade:
  12th Mississippi Infantry
  16th Mississippi Infantry
  19th Mississippi Infantry
  2nd Mississippi Infantry Battalion

On the Sharpsburg Campaign

Brigadier General W.S. Featherston was with his brigade at Harpers Ferry, VA, but was ill through the Campaign and did not exercise command. Colonel Posey of the 16th Mississippi led the brigade in Maryland.1

Map Showing this Unit

Detail Map #9: Richardson's Division Attacks the Sunken Road (10-11 am)

Battlefield Tablets for this Unit

Tablet #386: Anderson's Division, Longstreet's Command - 17 Sep, 5 AM to 17 Sep, 1 PM
Tablet #344: Anderson's Division, Longstreet's Command - 17 Sep, 5 AM to 17 Sep, 5 PM

Notes

1 Carman, Ezra Ayers, and Dr. Thomas G. Clemens, editor, The Maryland Campaign of September 1862, 3 volumes, El Dorado Hills (CA): Savas Beatie, 2010-17, Vol. II, pg. 545 [AotW citation 29571]

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