Located on the south side of Boonsboro Pike east of Rodman Avenue
From the marker:
U.S.A.
Fifth Army Corps
First Battalion (8 Cos.), Fourteenth U.S. Infantry
Capt. W. Harvey Brown, 14th U.S. Infantry, Commanding.
September 17, 1862.
At 3 P.M. the First Battalion, Fourteenth U. S. Infantry, crossed the Antietam at the Middle Bridge, advanced on this road to this point and formed on the hill and in the ravine south of this tablet, the right of the Battalion resting on this road. At dusk, Companies F and G, deployed as skirmishers, advanced about 200 yards to Sherrick's Lane, formed on the right of the Second and Tenth U.S. Infantry, and engaged the enemy.
The Battalion was withdrawn at dark and recrossed the Antietam.
No. 80.
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