Monday, March 18, 2024

Diary of Corporal John W. Dennett, September 17, 1862

Battle of Antietam. Fighting began at nine A.M. along the whole line, and ended in the afternoon, with defeat to the rebel forces. The battery was hitched up all day, but was not called upon.

SOURCE: John Lord Parker, Henry Wilson's Regiment: History of the Twenty-second Massachusetts Infantry, the Second Company Sharpshooters and the Third Light Battery, in the War of the Rebellion, p. 267

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