BGuthrie Photos: MD -- Antietam Natl Battlefield -- Upper Bridge (Woods, Cornfield, Dunker Church, Mumma)

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1. ANTIUP_050422_018.JPG: These cows were fun. We came traipsing through the field near them and they came running up to the fence to look at us. I felt a little like we were in a zoo.
2. ANTIUP_050422_058.JPG: "The Jaws of Death": Sedgwick's division entered the West Woods. "The last of the charging lines had gone beyond, and was sweeping majestically into the jaws of death when the mass seemed to halt, while from the front line spouted forth a long angry sheet of flame from innumerable gun barrels. Men were falling fast now, as unseen batteries were pelting the lines with an iron storm, and Confederate bullets were finding the object of their flight." Confederate infantry and artillery hit the Union lines from three directions. Sedgwick was wounded. Major General Edwin Sumner, Second Corps commander, was helpless: "Back boys, for God's sake, move back! You are in a bad fix!" In about 15 minutes, Sedgwick's division had lost almost 2,300 men killed and wounded -- about half their original number. "Where the line stood, the ground was covered in blue." The Confederates pursued the Federals out of the woods and were themselves cut down by waiting infantry and artillery. When it was almost over, a Twelfth Corps division commanded by Brig. Gen. George Green -- a division left over from Mansfield's earlier attack -- finally reached the Dunker Church. They received no support and were driven back after a couple of hours.
3. ANTIUP_050422_061.JPG: "With Flags Flying": The Cornfield was quiet. The first two Union attacks had failed to breach the Confederate line. Union Major General John Sedgwick's division formed up i column of brigades: three brigades -- each with more than 1,700 men -- each brigade double rank extending a half mile. The lines moved toward the West Woods: "With flags flying and the long unfaltering lines rising and falling as they crossed the rolling fields, it looked as if nothing could stop them." A second observer saw a different picture: "The total disregard of all ordinary military precaution in their swift and solitary advance was so manifest that it was observed and criticized as the devoted band moved on." The lines crossed the Hagerstown Turnpike: "Not an enemy appeared. The woods in front were as quiet as any sylvan shade could be." Southern artillery officer Colonel Stephen D. Lee was worried. His commander, General Robert E. Lee, reassured him: " 'Don't be excited about it, Colonel, go tell General Hood to hold his ground. Reinforcements are now rapidly approaching between Sharpsburg and the ford. Tell him that I am coming to his support.' ... he called me and pointed to McLaws' division, then in sight, approaching at a double quick." Confederate Brigadier General Jubal Early's brigade was west of the woods, and there were two Southern divisions approaching at a double quick. Major General Lafayette McLaws had marched his division through the night from Harpers Ferry, and Brigadier General John Walker's division had come up from south of the town, where the Federals were still quiet.
4. ANTIUP_050422_101.JPG: "We May Never Meet Again": A few days before the battle, bidding farewell to a friend, Union General Mansfield said: "We may never meet again." At the Antietam Battlefield, six cannon are mounted muzzle down. Each marks the spot where a general officer, North or South, was mortally wounded.
  - Brigadier General William E. Starke, CSA: He led the counterattack that helped stop the first Union attack down the Hagerstown Pike. He was hit by three bullets and died with the hour.
  - Brigadier General George B. Anderson CSA: His brigade was posted in the Sunken Road -- Bloody Lane. His ankle wound did not seem serious, but he died October 16 and age 31.
  - Brigadier General Isaac P. Rodman, USA: During the last Union attack, between Lower Bridge and Sharpsburg, Rodman saw the Confederate counterattack coming and galloped ahead to warn his leading regiments. He was killed by a bullet in the chest.
  - Major General Joseph K. F. Mansfield, USA: At age 59, two days before the Battle of Antietam, he was finally given a combat command. He was wounded as he prepared to lead his corps out of the East Woods into the Cornfield. Carried to the rear, he died a short time later.
  - Major General Israel B. Richardson, USA: Richardson was a division commander in the Union Second Corps attacking the Sunken Road. Trying to organize the attack that might have well won the battle, he was wounded by a shell burst. He died November 3.
  - Brigadier General Lawrence O'Brien Branch, CSA: Branch was with the Confederates that Rodman tried to stop He was shot and killed his men pursued the Union troops toward Lower Bridge.
5. ANTIUP_050422_105.JPG: The statue is of Color Sergeant George A. Simpson, who was killed at Antietam.
6. ANTIUP_050422_121.JPG: Dunker Church from the other side
7. ANTIUP_050422_139.JPG: The Maryland Monument under repair
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