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On the morning of Sept. 17, 1862, the 1st Delaware Volunteers, under Colonel John W. Andrews in the 3rd Brigade, 3rd Division, II Corps, crossed Antietam Creek as the right of the first line of French's Division. The regiment advanced under heavy skirmishing through Roulette Farm and became fiercely engaged immediately in front of Sunken Road. It then withdrew to a stronger position 100 yards north of here. Eight of the ten company commanders and the entire color guard were killed or wounded. Its losses were 3 officers and 26 men killed, 10 officers and 172 men wounded, and 17 missing, for a total of 230 out of 708 engaged.
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