Antietam Battlefield Historical Tablet No. 35

Second Army Corps

7 AM 15 September to 8 PM 15 September

U.S.A.
SECOND ARMY CORPS
Maj. Gen. Edwin. V. Sumner, Commanding.

(September 15, 1862.)

Richardson's Division of the Second Corps, preceded by the 5th New Hampshire as skirmishers, led the Infantry advance from South Mountain on the morning of September 15 and reached this point in early afternoon, the skirmishers engaging those of the enemy beyond the Antietam. Sedgwick's and French's Divisions passed through Keedysville, late in the day, and bivouacked in the fields west of that place.

No. 35.

Location: north side of the Boonsboro Pike, east of the Middle Bridge (Map 5)

Units described and/or located by this Tablet:

Second Army Corps
        6th New York Cavalry, Company D
        6th New York Cavalry, Company K
    Unattached Second Corps Artillery
1st Division, 2nd Corps
    1st Brigade, 1st Division, 2nd Corps
        5th New Hampshire Infantry
        61st New York Infantry
        64th New York Infantry
        7th New York Infantry
        81st Pennsylvania Infantry
    1st Division, 2nd Corps Artillery
        1st New York Light Artillery, Battery B
        4th United States Artillery, Batteries A and C
    2nd Brigade, 1st Division, 2nd Corps
        29th Massachusetts Infantry
        63rd New York Infantry
        69th New York Infantry
        88th New York Infantry
    3rd Brigade, 1st Division, 2nd Corps
        2nd Delaware Infantry
        52nd New York Infantry
        57th New York Infantry
        66th New York Infantry
        53rd Pennsylvania Infantry
2nd Division, 2nd Corps
    1st Brigade, 2nd Division, 2nd Corps
        15th Massachusetts Infantry
        Massachusetts Sharpshooters, First Company
        1st Minnesota Infantry
        Minnesota Sharpshooters, Second Company
        34th New York Infantry
        82nd New York Infantry (2nd Militia)
    2nd Brigade, 2nd Division, 2nd Corps
        106th Pennsylvania Infantry
        69th Pennsylvania Infantry
        71st Pennsylvania Infantry
        72nd Pennsylvania Infantry
    2nd Division, 2nd Corps Artillery
        1st Rhode Island Light Artillery, Battery A
        1st United States Artillery, Battery I
    3rd Brigade, 2nd Division, 2nd Corps
        19th Massachusetts Infantry
        20th Massachusetts Infantry
        7th Michigan Infantry
        42nd New York Infantry
        59th New York Infantry
3rd Division, 2nd Corps
    1st Brigade, 3rd Division, 2nd Corps
        14th Indiana Infantry
        8th Ohio Infantry
        132nd Pennsylvania Infantry
        7th West Virginia Infantry
    2nd Brigade, 3rd Division, 2nd Corps
        14th Connecticut Infantry
        108th New York Infantry
        130th Pennsylvania Infantry
    3rd Brigade, 3rd Division, 2nd Corps
        1st Delaware Infantry
        5th Maryland Infantry
        4th New York Infantry
        1st New York Light Artillery, Battery G
        1st Rhode Island Light Artillery, Battery B
        1st Rhode Island Light Artillery, Battery G

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)

Notes

1 Antietam Board, Antietam Battlefield Commission 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) [AotW citation 16739]

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