Antietam Sunset

Antietam

Antietam Sunset

A line of artillery and the New York Monument near the Antietam Visitor Center at sunset.

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Captain John Tompkins, commanding Battery A, First Rhode Island Light Artillery: “About 10:30 the enemy were re-enforced, and advanced their line to the edge of the corn-field. I at once ordered the battery to open on them with shell and case-shot, using 1 1/2- seconds and 2-seconds fuses. Twice they advanced their flag to the edge of the field, but were forced to retire by the rapid and destructive fire of the battery.” -- Tompkins’ battle report, in War of the Rebellion: Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, series I, volume 19, part 1, page 309

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