. The Maryland campaign and the battle of Antietam . ed from the batteries ofGeneral Jackson and those on the Maryland and LoudounHeights. General Miles was killed, and in about two hoursthe garrison, consisting of more than 11,000 men, surrendered,with 73 pieces of artillery, about 13,000 small arms and alarge quantity of military stores. Leaving General A. P. Hill to receive the surrender of theFederal troops and secure the captured property, GeneralJackson, with his two other divisions, set out at once forSharpsburg, ordering Generals McLaws and Walker to followwithout delay. The early afte
. The Maryland campaign and the battle of Antietam . ed from the batteries ofGeneral Jackson and those on the Maryland and LoudounHeights. General Miles was killed, and in about two hoursthe garrison, consisting of more than 11,000 men, surrendered,with 73 pieces of artillery, about 13,000 small arms and alarge quantity of military stores. Leaving General A. P. Hill to receive the surrender of theFederal troops and secure the captured property, GeneralJackson, with his two other divisions, set out at once forSharpsburg, ordering Generals McLaws and Walker to followwithout delay. The early afternoon of September 14th the 12th Corpsmarched through Frederick City, Comrades who participatedin the forced march of that day will remember the heavy bur-den carried; the cutting torture of canteen, haversack andcartridge-box straps on shoulder muscles; the stifling cloudsof dust—ground to impalpable powder by thousands ofwheels of artillery and ammunition trains, hoof-beats of horsesand mules and tramping of men; the intense heat of the sun; 20. GEN. MC CLELLAN PASSING THROUGH FREDERICK ( ITY, SKIT., 1862. THE BATTLE OF A N T I E T A M lack of water; the oft-repeated command, Close-up, men!Close-np ! and the booming of cannon—in the distance—asfoot-sore and weary we toiled up Elk Mountain hurrying tothe battlefield of South Mountain. When we reached thesummit—where we could look down and across MiddletownValley—through the shimmering heat waves we could see linesof infantry—which looked like ribbons of blue—being rushedto the front; the rays of the sun glinted from musket barreland bayonet and polished brass cannon; batteries in position—in the fields in the valley—firing over the heads of the ad-vancing line of battle; smoke of shells bursting in air atCrampton and Turners Gaps, and could see lines of smoke inthe woods near the summit of South Mountain—where the in-fantry boys were fighting in the brush among the rocks. Itwas a panoramic moving-picture. G
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