Ninth Army Corps

Crook's Brigade of the Kanawha Division, Ninth Army Corps, commanded by Col. George Crook of the 36th Ohio Infantry and composed of the 11th, 28th, and 36th Ohio Infantry and Simmonds' Battery of Kentucky, fought at Antietam on September 16-17, 1862. On the evening of September 16th, the brigade formed line on the ridge east of the Antietam and north of Burnside Bridge. On the morning of the 17th, preceded by the 11th Connecticut of Harland's Brigade as skirmishers, it attempted to carry the bridge but failed. About 2 p.m., five companies of the 28th Ohio crossed the stream at a ford 250 yards north of the bridge and advanced to the rising ground east of the Sharpsburg Road. The rest of the brigade then crossed the bridge and moved up the road about 350 yards, after which the united brigade advanced over the high ground west of the road and supported the left of Willcox's Division. It helped check A.P. Hill's advance, but after the left of the line was turned, it was forced to withdraw to the cover of the ridge south and east of that line.

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