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In the Battle of Crampton's Gap it was in the van and lost heavily; was held in reserve at Antietam; at Fredericksburg was posted on picket duty, and after the battle went into winter quarters near Falmouth.
It was active at South mountain and Antietam, encamped at Sharpsburg for one week and marched through Crampton's Gap, Leesburg, Warrenton and Stafford Court House to Fredericksburg, where it participated in the battle.
The explosion at the Arsenal was overshadowed by the Battle of Antietam, which occurred on the same day near the town of Sharpsburg, Maryland.
Sears, Stephen W., Landscape Turned Red: The Battle of Antietam.
The late realization of these unanticipated problems caused the company to give up its earlier goal to link the Potomac and the Ohio Valley, and the new goal was to improve other rivers in the watershed such as the Shenandoah, the Monocacy, and the Antietam.
The Campaign would culminate in the battle of Antietam, or Sharpsburg as the Confederates called it.
Roundtable contingents went to Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, in 1997; Antietam, Maryland, in 1998; Richmond, Virginia, in 1999; Washington, D.C., in 2000; Charleston, South Carolina, in 2001; Virginia’s Shenandoah Valley in 2002; Shiloh, Tennessee, in 2003; Franklin, Tennessee, in 2004; Fredericksburg-Spotsylvania, Virginia, in 2005; and Perryville, Kentucky and the Underground Railroad Freedom Center in Cincinnati, Ohio in 2006.
Sears, Stephen W. Landscape Turned Red: The Battle of Antietam.
During the fall of 1862, the regiment was encamped on the north bank of the Potomac River near Hancock, Maryland, but soon participated in the fighting at Antietam, and later at Fredericksburg.
Sears, Stephen W., Landscape Turned Red: The Battle of Antietam, Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1983.
Sears, Stephen W., Landscape Turned Red: The Battle of Antietam, Houghton Mifflin, 1983, ISBN 0-89919-172-X.
Before earning his civil engineering degree from RPI, Buck fought for the Union Army in the American Civil War under General Slocum, participating in the battles at Antietam, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, Lookout Mountain, Missionary Ridge, Peachtree Creek, Resaca and
Lee's setback at the Battle of Antietam can also be seen as a turning point in that it may have dissuaded the governments of France and Great Britain from recognizing the Confederacy, doubting the South's ability to maintain and win the war.
Among these were the 7th West Virginia Infantry, famed for actions at Antietam and Gettysburg, and the 3rd West Virginia Cavalry, which also fought at Gettysburg.