Went into battery on
the banks of the Potomac. In the mean time the first brigade of the first
division went across the river to reconnoitre, but were driven back by the
rebels with considerable loss. Our battery, as well as the First Rhode Island
and Battery D, shared in the fight. The One Hundred and Eighteenth Pennsylvania
Volunteers lost severely. When the rebels retreated across the Potomac, after
the battle of Antietam, they left a number of pieces of artillery behind them,
and also left in Sharpsburg a lot of their wounded. On picket at Sharpsburg,
with our guns in battery, from Sept. 20 till Oct. 30, with the rebels on the
other side of the Potomac. Gen. Porter's division was reviewed by Gen.
McClellan and President Lincoln on the 3d of October.
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
