First Army Corps

On September 17, 1862, Patrick's Brigade of Doubleday's Division, First Army Corps, under Brigadier General M.R. Patrick, with the 21st, 23d, 35th, and 80th New York Infantry, formed line north of Joseph Poffenberger's at 5:30 a.m. and advanced on the east of the Hagerstown Pike in support of Gibbon's Brigade. The 80th New York was sent to support Battery B, 4th U.S. Artillery, 130 yards south of Miller's barn, and the 23d moved into the field west of that point. The 21st and 35th, in close support of Gibbon's right, swept through the West Woods and the open ground east of them toward the Dunkard Church, and the 23d rejoined them on the way. The three regiments were checked and forced back to the cover of Miller's barn and the rocky ledges south and west of it. After nearly an hour, they advanced again in support of Goodrich's Brigade of the Twelfth Corps, but were again compelled to fall back. After the repulse of Sedgwick's Division, the brigade was withdrawn to a position east of the Pike in support of the artillery of the First Corps.

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