Antietam Battlefield Historical Tablet No. 369, cont
Jones' Division, Longstreet's Command
3 PM 17 September to 9 PM 18 September
Kemper's Brigade and J.S. Brown's (Va.) Battery were on the high ground about 350 yards west, Drayton's Brigade was on Kemper's left.
Walker's (Jenkins') Brigade held the stone mill and house on either side of the Sharpsburg Road and the southwest slope of Cemetery Hill.
Garnett's Brigade held the south and southeast slope of Cemetery Hill with its left resting on the Boonsboro Pike. The right of the advancing Federal line was held in check by Garnett and Walker and the massed Artillery on Cemetery Hill and the high ground west of the Sharpsburg Road. Kemper and Drayton were driven through the town and, the right of the Division having been turned, Garnett and the Artillery were withdrawn. Walker yielded some ground but did not abandon Cemetery Hill. Upon the advance of A.P. Hill's Division on the Federal left and rear, the Brigades of Toombs, Kemper, Drayton, and Garnett reformed on the Antietam Furnace Road, took position on Hill's left and, advancing with his Division, reoccupied, substantially, the ground from which they had been driven. The entire Division remained on the field until the night of 18th, when it recrossed the Potomac.
Location: west side of Branch Avenue (Map 4)
Notes: This narrative continues from the previous tablet (No. 369) placed directly adjacent.
Units described and/or located by this Tablet:
Jones' Division
Anderson's (GA) Brigade
11th Georgia Infantry
1st Georgia (Regulars) Infantry
Drayton's Brigade
50th Georgia Infantry
51st Georgia Infantry
15th South Carolina Infantry
3rd South Carolina Infantry Battalion
Jenkins' Brigade
1st South Carolina Volunteer Infantry
2nd South Carolina Rifles
4th South Carolina Infantry Battalion
5th South Carolina Infantry
6th South Carolina Infantry
Kemper's Brigade
11th Virginia Infantry
17th Virginia Infantry
1st Virginia Infantry
24th Virginia Infantry
Pickett's (Garnett's) Brigade
18th Virginia Infantry
19th Virginia Infantry
28th Virginia Infantry
56th Virginia Infantry
Toombs' Brigade
15th Georgia Infantry
17th Georgia Infantry
20th Georgia Infantry
2nd Georgia 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 16773]
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