Antietam Battlefield Historical Tablet No. 13

Doubleday's Division, First Army Corps

2 PM 16 September to 8 PM 16 September

U.S.A.
DOUBLEDAY'S DIVISION, FIRST ARMY CORPS
Brig. Gen. Abner Doubleday, Commanding.

(September 16, 1862.)

Doubleday's Division crossed the Antietam at Pry's Ford on the afternoon of Sept. 16, and moved across the fields in a westerly direction in a column parallel to the other divisions.

It reached this point after dark and formed on the extreme right of the Corps, Hofmann and Patrick's Brigades in line parallel to this road and facing west. Phelps' and Gibbon's Brigades about 200 yards to the rear in support.

Outposts were established in the fields to the west, connecting with those of Meade's Division on the left.

No. 13.

Location: west side of the Hagerstown Pike, north of the North Woods (Map 1)

Notes: This tablet is missing from the battlefield. Text is from Battlefield Board records.

Units described and/or located by this Tablet:

1st Division, 1st Corps
    1st Brigade, 1st Division, 1st Corps
        22nd New York Infantry
        24th New York Infantry
        30th New York Infantry
        84th New York Infantry (14th Brooklyn)
        2nd United States Sharpshooters
    1st Division, 1st Corps Artillery
        New Hampshire Light Artillery, First Battery
        1st New York Light Artillery, Battery L
        1st Rhode Island Light Artillery, Battery D
        4th United States Artillery, Battery B
    2nd Brigade, 1st Division, 1st Corps
        7th Indiana Infantry
        76th New York Infantry
        95th New York Infantry
        56th Pennsylvania Infantry
    3rd Brigade, 1st Division, 1st Corps
        21st New York Infantry
        23rd New York Infantry
        35th New York Infantry
        80th New York Infantry (20th Militia)
    4th Brigade, 1st Division, 1st Corps
        19th Indiana Infantry
        2nd Wisconsin Infantry
        6th Wisconsin Infantry
        7th Wisconsin Infantry

Source: Antietam Battlefield Board, Antietam Battlefield Board Papers, Washington DC: National Archives and Records Administration, 1891-1898, Entry 707, Record Group 92 (Historical Tablet text by Generals E.A. Carman and H. Heth)