Battery C, 5th U.S. Artillery

Under Captain Dunbar R. Ransom, U.S.A., Battery C, 5th U.S. Artillery came into battery on the evening of September 16, 1862, 370 yards east of the Hagerstown Pike on the south edge of the North Woods and opened fire on a Confederate battery in the open field west of the Pike and north of the Dunkard Church, forcing it to retire. After dark, the battery was withdrawn and bivouacked 75 yards east of J. Poffenberger's Barn. On the morning of September 17, the battery advanced to a position 205 yards due east of this point and engaged Confederate infantry that had made a lodgement in Miller's Cornfield, supported by Anderson's and Magilton's brigades of Meade's Division and Gordon's Brigade of the Twelfth Corps. After the repulse of the Confederate advance, the battery retired to its bivouac of September 16.

Shepherdstown, Maryland · United States