Antietam Battlefield Historical Tablet No. 382, cont
Jackson's Division, Jackson's Command
7 AM 17 September to 9 AM 17 September
At the end of a half hour Starke's second line advanced obliquing to the right, aligned along the fence bordering the Pike and engaged the Union advance east of it. As the left reached the fence, the fire of Campbell's Battery and five Regiments of Gibbon's and Patrick's Brigades, formed behind the ledge 78 yards west of this, struck it in flank and rear, and the entire command retreated to the woods from which it had advanced. At an early stage of this movement, General Starke was killed and the command of the Division devolved upon Colonel Grigsby, 27th Virginia Infantry. Grigsby reformed the Division, and moving in connection with Early's Brigade, turned the flank of Gibbon's and Patrick's line, compelling it to retire to Miller's barn. Early halted in the angle of the West Woods a few yards south and west of this, and Jackson's Division, now reduced to 200 men, formed on his left, fronting the low ground west of the ledge and between it and the northern extremity of the West Woods, where it assisted in checking the advance of Goodrich's Brigade, Twelfth Corps, shortly after which it fell back to Alfred Poffenberger's, 400 yards southwest of this, where it was relieved by the advance of McLaws' Division.
Location: south side of Starke Avenue near the Hagerstown Pike (Map 1)
Notes: This narrative is continuation from the tablet (No. 382) placed directly adjacent.
Units described and/or located by this Tablet:
Jackson's Division
Jackson's Division Artillery
2nd Baltimore (MD) Artillery
Alleghany (VA) Artillery
Danville (VA) Artillery
Lee (VA) Artillery
Richmond "Hampden" (VA) Artillery
Rockbridge (VA) Artillery
Jones' Brigade
1st Virginia Infantry Battalion
21st Virginia Infantry
42nd Virginia Infantry
48th Virginia Infantry
Starke's Brigade
10th Louisiana Infantry
15th Louisiana Infantry
1st Louisiana (Zouaves) Infantry Battalion
1st Louisiana Volunteer Infantry
2nd Louisiana Infantry
9th Louisiana Infantry
Taliaferro's Brigade
47th Alabama Infantry
48th Alabama Infantry
23rd Virginia Infantry
37th Virginia Infantry
Winder's Brigade
27th Virginia Infantry
33rd Virginia Infantry
4th Virginia Infantry
5th Virginia 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 16722]
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