Longstreet's Command

During September 15-17, 1862, Jenkin's Brigade of Jones' Division in Longstreet's Command, led by Col. Joseph Walker of the Palmetto (S.C.) Sharpshooters and including the 1st South Carolina Infantry, 6th South Carolina Infantry, 2d South Carolina Rifles, 4th South Carolina Battalion, 5th South Carolina Infantry, and Palmetto (S.C.) Sharpshooters, reached Sharpsburg at 11 a.m. on September 15th and took position on the high ground west of the cemetery. Late that evening it moved to the high ground west of the Burnside Bridge Road, where it remained under artillery fire until 3 p.m. on the 17th, when it returned to its first position in support of Moody's and Squire's Batteries. It then advanced to the apple orchard and to the stone house and mill about 250 yards north of this point, where it engaged the Federal line that had reached this elevation. After the enemy withdrew, the brigade pushed its skirmishers forward to the crest of the hill overlooking the low ground and a belt of woodland bordering the Antietam. Fitzhugh Lee's Cavalry Brigade relieved it during the night of the 18th, and at sunrise on the 19th it crossed the Potomac at Blackfords.

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