Southern Edge of the Cornfield

Antietam

Southern Edge of the Cornfield

Confederate and Union forces advanced and retreated several times across the fenceline at this edge of Miller’s cornfield.

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Major Rufus Dawes of the 6th Wisconsin Infantry: “At the front edge of the corn-field was a low Virginia rail fence. . . . As we appeared at the edge of the corn, a long line of men in butternut and gray rose up from the ground.  Simultaneously, the hostile battle lines opened a tremendous fire upon each other.  Men, I can not say fell; they were knocked out of the ranks by dozens.  But we jumped over the fence, and pushed on, loading, firing, and shouting as we advanced.” -- from Dawes’ memoirs Service With the Sixth Wisconsin Volunteers, as quoted in Voices of the Civil War: Antietam, pages 68-69

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