. The Maryland campaign and the battle of Antietam . of theBattlefield of Antietam; the Confederate line—from its leftto right—Hood, D. H. Hill, Evans, Jones and Toombs; a partof Toombs with Archer, Gregg, Pender, Brockenborough andBranch—in rear of that part of Toombs—holding Burnsidein check at the bridge. The Union line positions—right to left—Doubleday, Wil-liams, Meade, Greene, Ricketts, Slocum, Sedgewiek, Hancock,Couch, French, Irwin: Brooks and Richardson were west ofAntietam Creek. On the east side—under Porter—Hum-phreys, Morell and Sykes, and—under Burnside—Crook,Sturgis, Miles, Rodm
. The Maryland campaign and the battle of Antietam . of theBattlefield of Antietam; the Confederate line—from its leftto right—Hood, D. H. Hill, Evans, Jones and Toombs; a partof Toombs with Archer, Gregg, Pender, Brockenborough andBranch—in rear of that part of Toombs—holding Burnsidein check at the bridge. The Union line positions—right to left—Doubleday, Wil-liams, Meade, Greene, Ricketts, Slocum, Sedgewiek, Hancock,Couch, French, Irwin: Brooks and Richardson were west ofAntietam Creek. On the east side—under Porter—Hum-phreys, Morell and Sykes, and—under Burnside—Crook,Sturgis, Miles, Rodman and Scammon. The light dotted line indicating Williams ad-vance into West Woods is not correct, the heavy - - - - in-dicates the line of advance of the 125th P. V.—of First Bri-gade of Williams Division. * The War Department in figuring percent loss used the morn-ing report of September 16th, and made the loss 57%; subsequentto that morning report Co. H—the largest company—was detachedand was not on the firing line. 30. The Batti of Antietam. THE BATTLE OF ANTIETAM The light dotted line indicating the advance of Greene—of Mansfields Corps—to about on a line with DunkerChurch, is correct for the 34th and 78th New York regimentsonly, they having been sent to the support of the 125th P. V.,covered the same line of advance made by the 125th andreached our battle-line about half an hour after we had takenposition to the right rear of Dunker Church in West Woods. The battle was opened with great spirit by the Confeder-ate batteries—opposite Doubleday—and were promptly an-swered by Union batteries confronting, the guns doing ex-cellent service in compelling changes in position—and thustemporarily silencing the enemys artillery. Gibbons brigademoved forward to commence the Union infantry attack—atour extreme right—and was closely followed by Phelps bri-gade in support; about twenty minutes later Patricks brigadewas also ordered forward
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