Fifty-First New York Infantry

Shepard Rifles

Col. Robert B. Potter

2d Brigade - Ferrero's 2d Division - Sturgis'

9th Army Corps - Burnside's

Army of the Potomac

Sept. 17, 1862

In compliance with orders received from

General Burnside on the morning of September 17,

the 51st New York and the 51st Pennsylvania ...