Longstreet's Command

In Longstreet's Confederate command, Toombs' Brigade of D.R. Jones' Division, led by Brigadier General Robert Toombs and composed of the 2d, 15th, 17th, and 20th Georgia Infantry, took position on the evening of September 15, 1862, on the bluff commanding Burnside Bridge and a nearby ford. Its skirmishers and several artillery batteries engaged the enemy during the afternoon of September 16. On the morning of September 17, the brigade came under heavy artillery fire from the opposite side of the Antietam. Between 9 a.m. and noon, the enemy made several unsuccessful attempts to carry the bridge. An assault at 1 p.m. succeeded, and the brigade fell back and formed line in this road on the extreme right of the division, where it cooperated with Archer's Brigade of A.P. Hill's Division to check the enemy's further advance.

Maryland · United States