Longstreet's Command
Kershaw's Brigade, McLaws' Division
C.S.A.
Longstreet's Command.
Kershaw's Brigade, McLaws' Division
Brig. Gen. J.B. Kershaw, commanding.
Organization.
2d, 3d, 7th, and 8th South Carolina Infantry's
(September 17, 1862.)
About 9:45 a.m. the 2d, 7th, and 8th South Carolina of Kershaw's Brigade charged out of the woods and across this road upon Tompkins' Rhode Island Battery on the ridge about 220 yards east of this. The charge was repulsed by the battery and Green's Division of infantry, and the brigade fell back beyond the western limits of the West Woods. Nearly one-half of the officers and men of the Brigade were killed and wounded in less than fifteen minutes.
This tablet marks the point where the center of the brigade crossed the road, its left reached nearly to the church.
Marker is on Dunker Church Road / Old Hagerstown Pike, on the right when traveling south.
Courtesy hmdb.org
