Second Brigade
First Division - Eleventh Corps
Army of the Potomac
Eleventh Corps - First Division
Second Brigade
Brig. Gen. Adelbert Ames
Col. Andrew L. Harris
17th Conn., 25th, 75th, 107th Ohio Infantry
July 1 Arrived about noon and advanced along the Harrisburg Road. Four companies of the 17th Conn. advanced as skirmishers across Rock Creek to the Bender House the rest of the Brigade taking position on Barlow Knoll at the left of First Brigade was hotly engaged until 4 p.m. when being enfiladed by Artillery and flanked by superior numbers the Brigade with the Division was forced to retire and retreat through the town to Cemetery Hill to a position along a stone wall at right angles to the Baltimore Pike facing town.
July 2 Remained under a hot sharpshooters fire from houses in town until sunset when Brig. Gen. Hays's Brigade charged penetrating the line left open by the removal of 17th Conn. to the right shortly before and reached the Batteries on the hill where after a hand to hand conflict the attack was repulsed with heavy loss including the colors of the 8th Louisiana captured by 107th Ohio.
July 3No other engagement than sharp skirmishing.
Casualties - Killed 5 officers 63 men - Wounded 24 officers 342 men - Captured or missing 9 officers 335 men - Total 778
Marker is on Howard Avenue 0.4 miles east of Carlisle Road (Pennsylvania Highway 34), on the right when traveling east.
Courtesy hmdb.org
