Longstreet's Command

At about 9:45 a.m. on September 17, 1862, the 2d, 7th, and 8th South Carolina of Kershaw's Brigade, McLaws' Division, commanded by Brig. Gen. J.B. Kershaw, charged out of the woods and across the road toward Tompkins' Rhode Island Battery on the ridge about 220 yards east. The charge was repulsed by the battery and Green's Division of infantry, and the brigade fell back beyond the western limits of the West Woods. Nearly one-half of the brigade's officers and men were killed and wounded in less than fifteen minutes, and the center of the brigade crossed the road while its left reached nearly to the church.

Keedysville, Maryland · United States