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On September 17, 1862, Doubleday's Division of the First Army Corps, commanded by Brigadier Gen. Abner Doubleday, attacked at 5:30 a.m. with Gibbon's Brigade in advance, supported by Phelps' and Patrick's Brigades, while Hofmann's Brigade remained in reserve. Advancing on the right of the First Corps with its right resting on the Hagerstown Pike, the division moved forward until Gibbon reached a point 135 yards north of this location, where Confederate skirmishers behind a ledge west of and parallel to the pike fired into his right flank. The division then deployed, with Gibbon across the turnpike and Battery B, 4th U.S. Artillery, in his right rear, Phelps on Gibbon's left, and Patrick west of the turnpike supporting Gibbon's right and the battery. Gibbon, Phelps, and Patrick became heavily engaged and advanced to and south of this point, but after an obstinate contest of more than an hour, with varying success, they withdrew first to the fields north of D.R. Miller's and then to the cover of the high ground beyond Joseph Poffenberger's.
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