Twelfth Army Corps
Stainrook's Brigade, Green's Division
U.S.A.
Twelfth Army Corps
Stainrook's Brigade, Green's Division,
Col. Henry J. Stainrook, 100th Penn., Commanding.
Organization.
3d Maryland Infantry, 102d New York Infantry,
111th Pennsylvania Infantry.
(September 17, 1862.)
After the Confederate right flank had been turned, Stainrook's Brigade pursued through the East Woods, cross the fields to the left of the burned buildings on the Mumma Farm and halted behind the ridge a few yards east of this point where with the assistance of Monroe's and Tomkin's Rhode Island Batteries, it protected the right of Frenche's Division of the Second Corps, and repulsed several assaults of the enemy. About 10:30 a.m., the brigade crossed this road and entered the woods on the left of the Dunkard Church its left on the road directly opposite this tablet where it remained until noon when it was compelled to retire to the East Woods.
Marker is on Dunker Church Road / Old Hagerstown Pike, on the right when traveling north.
Courtesy hmdb.org
