Twelfth Army Corps

On September 17, 1862, Gordon's Brigade of Williams' Division in the U.S.A. Twelfth Army Corps, commanded by Brig. Gen. George H. Gordon and composed of the 2d Massachusetts Infantry, 3d Wisconsin Infantry, 27th Indiana Infantry, 13th New Jersey Infantry, 107th New York Infantry, and Zouaves D' Afrique of Pennsylvania, formed line at daybreak on the Hoffman Farm and advanced south in support of Hooker's Corps. The 107th New York was detached to support Cochran's Battery and the 13th New Jersey was held in reserve. The brigade formed on either side of Ransom's Battery on the high ground due east of D.R. Miller's, where it repulsed an assault by Hood's Division and its supports, then moved south through the Cornfield, changed front to the right, and took position behind the ridge parallel to the Hagerstown Pike, remaining there until relieved by the advance of Sedgwick's Division and withdrawn to the East Woods.

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