Antietam Battlefield Historical Tablet No. 352
Archer's Brigade, Hill's Light Division
3 PM 17 September to 7 AM 19 September
(September 17, 1862.)
Archer's Brigade formed line in the road at this point about 3 P.M. supported on the right by the Brigades of Branch and Gregg, and on the left by Toombs' Brigade of D.R. Jones' Division. It advanced through a narrow cornfield and across the broad ravine beyond to the stone wall about 600 yards distant, where it met and checked the left of the advancing Federal line. An attempt to advance farther was repulsed and the Brigade rallied behind the stone wall where it remained until early on the morning of the 19th when it recrossed the Potomac at Blackford's Ford.
Location: east side of the Harpers Ferry Road (Map 4)
Units described and/or located by this Tablet:
Archer's Brigade
19th Georgia Infantry
14th Tennessee Infantry
1st Tennessee Infantry (Provisional Army)
7th Tennessee 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)
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 16843]
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