The Cornfield

Antietam

The Cornfield

Farmer Miller’s cornfield was the site of more fighting on September 17, 1862, than any other area of the battlefield.

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Colonel Silas Colgrove, commanding the 27th Indiana Infantry: “When we first gained our position, the corn-field, or nearly all of it, was occupied by the enemy. This field was on a low piece of ground, the corn very heavy and serving to some extent to screen the enemy from view, yet the colors and battle-flags of several regiments appearing above the corn clearly indicated the advance of the enemy in force.” -- from Colgrove’s battle report, in War of the Rebellion: Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, series I, volume 19, part 1, page 498

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