At the Battle

of

Antietam

On this spot, known as "The Cornfield," the 84th N.Y. Volunteer Infantry

(14th Brooklyn, N.Y. S. M. ) of the 1st Brigade, Col. Phelps, 1st Division

Gen. Doubleday, 1st Corps, Gen. Hooker, was hotly engaged on the

morning of September 17, 1862

The Regiment's loss in the day's battle was, officers and men

Killed 8 Wounded 23

At "South Mountain", the prelude to "Antietam" September 14,

1862, it lost.

Killed 8 Wounded 18.

making in the two days, a total loss of 54 killed and wounded.

This monument is grateful remembrance of these her sons, is

Erected by the State of New York

Fourteenth Brooklyn

Marker is on Cornfield Avenue, on the right when traveling west.

Courtesy hmdb.org

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