Steuart's Brigade
Johnson's Division - Ewell's Corps
C.S.A.
Army of Northern Virginia
Ewell's Corps Johnson's Division
Steuart's Brigade
1st. Maryland Battalion
1st. and 3rd. North Carolina
10th. 23rd. and 37th. Virginia Infantry
July 1 Arrived about nightfall and took position near Hanover Road about a mile east of Rock Creek with left wing at edge of woods.
July 2 Crossing Rock Creek at 6 p.m. the 3rd N.C. and 1st Md. attacked the lesser summit of Culp's Hill. Reinforced later by the other regiments the Union breastworks thinly manned at some points were occupied to the southern base of the main summit but only after a vigorous and desperate conflict.
July 3 The Union troops reinforced renewed the conflict at dawn and it raged fiercely until 11 a.m. when this Brigade and the entire line fell back to the base of the Hill and from thence moved about midnight to Seminary Ridge northwest of the town.
July 4 Occupied Seminary Ridge. About 10 p.m. began the march to Hagerstown.
Present about 1700. Killed 83, wounded 409, missing 190. Total 682.
Marker is on East Confederate Avenue, on the left when traveling south.
Courtesy hmdb.org
