Reserve Artillery
Army of Northern Virginia
C.S.A.
Reserve Artillery,
Army of Northern Virginia,
Brig. Gen. William N. Pendleton, Commanding.
September 16-18, 1862.
A portion of the Reserve Artillery took part in the battle of September 16-17; The rest was posted at the fords, in the vicinity of Williamsport and Shepherdstown, to command the crossings of the Potomac River.
On the 16th the artillery was posted on the high ground either side of the Boonsboro' Pike, east of Sharpsburg, from which it engaged the long-range artillery of the Army of the Potomac which occupied the high ground on the east side of the Antietam.
Marker is on Boonsboro Pike (State Highway 34), on the right when traveling east.
Courtesy hmdb.org
