[Bull Snipe]

A.P. Hill commanded a division in Jackson’s Wing at the time. He was promoted to Command the III Corp of the Army of Northern Virginia in May 1863.

[Tudorfly]

Thank you for posting this. God bless you and your family.

[IronJack]

There was much waste of human life in the Civil War, most of it on the Union side. Look at Burnside’s senseless assaults on Marye’s Heights or the disaster at Cold Harbor.

Horror writ large.

[vetvetdoug]

At a SCV meeting more than 30 years ago I was signing up men to a new camp at Shiloh, Tn. Many had microfiche copies of their ancestor's records and about 15 of the new members from Burnsville, Mississippi, in the records of their ancestors stated KIA at Sharpsburg. Many of them were not related and 125 years after the war so many were descended from men whose lives ended at Sharpsburg. These men that died for the Confederacy were of Featherston's Brigade and faced the 7th Maine. Another town called Blackland near Corinth also had a significant number of men die at Sharpsburg. The town never recovered and is a small town today.

[wardaddy]

I’ve never seen that pic of the bridge and hill before

Devastating position for the Federals to bottleneck in

Reminds me of Stirling Bridge

Never have your force use a narrow confined egress to the battlefield if you can help it

You’ll pay for it

In Napoleon theater his adversaries would have either surrendered on the spot or retreated had he occupied that spot in force

That was not the only bridge that was pivotal at Antietam

[abishai]

I’m doing research for a book on the 4th NC Infantry regiment. My great X 3 grandfather fought with the 4th under G B Anderson at Bloody Lane. I think after Anderson was was wounded, his shattered brigades fell back from the lane and parts of it were reorganized by Daniel Harvey Hill for defense at the Piper farm.

[myerson]

This book is one of the best step-by-step and understandable accounts of the battle that I’ve ever read. ‘Highly-recommended!