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On September 15-16, 1862, Brig. Gen. D.R. Jones' Division of Longstreet's Command, consisting of the brigades of Robert Toombs, Thomas F. Drayton, R. B. Garnett, James L. Kemper, Joseph Walker, and George T. Anderson, reached Sharpsburg on the morning of the 15th and took position on Cemetery Hill and the high ground about 350 yards to the west and northwest of this point. Part of Toombs' Brigade, the 50th Georgia of Drayton's Brigade, and one company each of Walker's (Jenkins') Brigade and Hood's Division, all under General Toombs, were advanced to contest passage of the Antietam at Burnside Bridge and the fords below. The Washington Artillery with 15 guns, Hood's Division Artillery with 14 guns, and Captain J.S. Brown's Virginia Battery with 4 guns, 33 guns in all, strengthened Jones' Division, which formed the extreme right of the Army of Northern Virginia. During the 16th, the division was subjected to an annoying fire from long-range guns beyond the Antietam.
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