Located on the east side of the Harpers Ferry Road south of Sharpsburg
From the marker:
C.S.A.
Longstreet's Command
Toomb's Brigade, D.R. Jones' Division
Brigadier General Robert Toombs, Commanding.
Organization.
2d, 15th, 17th and 20th Georgia Infantry
(September 15-17, 1862.)
Toombs' Brigade took position on the evening of September 15, on the bluff commanding the Burnside Bridge and ford a short distance below. His skirmishers and several Batteries of Artillery engaged the enemy during the afternoon of the 16th. On the morning of the 17th the Brigade was exposed to a heavy fire from the enemy's Artillery on the opposite side of the Antietam. Between 9 A.M. and noon the enemy made several attempts to carry the bridge, but failed. An assault at 1 P.M. was successful and the Brigade fell back and formed line in this road, on the extreme right of the Division and co-operated with Archer's Brigade of A.P. Hill's Division in checking any further advance of the enemy.
No. 345.
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