Jackson's Command

On September 17, 1862, Gregg's Brigade of Hill's Light Division, commanded by Brigadier General Maxcy Gregg and composed of the 1st South Carolina Infantry of the Provisional Army, the 12th, 13th, and 14th South Carolina Infantry, and the 1st South Carolina Rifles, formed line about 3 p.m. in fields southwest of this location and advanced into the southwest corner of the 40-acre cornfield about 100 yards east, where it encountered and repulsed the advance of the extreme left of the Ninth Corps. An effort to pursue into the fields beyond was checked, and the brigade fell back to the line now marked by this road, where it remained until the early morning of September 19, when it retired to Blackford's Ford and became the last infantry brigade of the Confederate Army to recross the Potomac.

Maryland · United States