Longstreet's Command
Toombs' Brigade, D.R. Jones' Division
C.S.A.
Longstreet's Command.
Toombs' Brigade, D.R. Jones' Division
Brigadier General Robert Toombs, Commanding.
Organization.
2d, 15th, 17th, and 20th Georgia Infantry.
(September 15-17, 1862.)
Toombs' Brigade took position on the evening of September 15, on the bluff commanding the Burnside Bridge and a ford a short distance below. His skirmishers and several batteries of artillery engaged the enemy during the afternoon of the 16th. On the morning of the 17th the brigade was exposed to a heavy fire from the enemy's artillery on the opposite side of the Antietam. Between 9 a.m. and noon the enemy made several attempts to carry the bridge, but failed. An assault at 1 p.m., was successful and the Brigade fell back and formed line in this road, on the extreme right of the Division, and co-operated with Archer's Brigade of A.P. Hill's Division in checking the further advance of the enemy.
Marker is on Harpers Ferry Road, on the right when traveling north.
Courtesy hmdb.org
