Second Army Corps
Howard's Brigade, Sedgwick's Division
U.S.A.
Second Army Corps.
Howard's Brigade, Sedgwick's Division,
Brig. Gen. O.O. Howard, Commanding,
Organization.
69th Pennsylvania Infantry,
71st Pennsylvania Infantry,
72d Pennsylvania Infantry,
106th Pennsylvania Infantry.
September 17, 1862.
Howard's Brigade following Gorman and Dana in their attack, passed through the East Woods, crossed the Cornfield and the Hagerstown Pike and reached the edge of the West Woods, where its advance was checked about 90 yards east of this point.
Its left flank having been attacked and turned by McLaws' and Walker's Divisions, it was forced to retire to the fields north of D.R. Miller's, where it was reformed and placed in position in support of part of the artillery of the First and Twelfth Corps and of Sedgwick's Division of the Second Corps.
Marker is on Hagerstown Pike (State Highway 65), on the right when traveling north.
Courtesy hmdb.org
