First Army Corps

On September 17, 1862, Anderson's Brigade of Meade's Division, First Army Corps, commanded by Lieutenant Colonel Robert Anderson of the 9th Pennsylvania Reserve and composed of the 9th, 10th, 11th, and 12th Pennsylvania Reserves, advanced from the North Woods about 6:30 a.m. in support of Doubleday's Division, which was engaged on either side of the road south of this point. Midway between the North Woods and D.R. Miller's, the 10th regiment crossed the road, moved west about 700 yards, and became engaged with the enemy's skirmishers and the artillery of Stuart's cavalry command. The other three regiments formed a line with the right resting on the road at this point. They repulsed an enemy charge to the north edge of the cornfield and advanced to the cornfield, with the 9th Regiment going through the corn to its south edge and the center and left moving about midway into the corn, until the brigade was checked by the advance of a Confederate line and fell back. Anderson then withdrew to the North Woods, where he was rejoined by the 10th Regiment and served as a rallying point for Sedgwick's Division, Second Corps. The brigade then moved to the rear of the high ground north of Joseph Poffenberger's.

Shepherdstown, Maryland · United States