• Cannon and Cornfield at Dawn

    Antietam

    National Battlefield Maryland

Company E & H, 2nd United States Sharpshooters Monument

Dedicated: 1900

Location: Cornfield Avenue

Map Number: 14

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Company E & H, 2nd United States Sharpshooters

Company E & H, 2nd United States Sharpshooters Monument

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Monument Text:
SECOND REGIMENT
U.S. SHARPSHOOTERS
Sept. 17, 1862
Company "E"
Capt. Homer R. Stoughton
Company "H"
Lieut. Albert Buxton
VERMONT

Did You Know?

Did You Know?

Six generals were killed or mortally wounded at the Battle of Antietam - 3 Union and 3 Confederate. Today, the location where they were killed is marked by a mortuary cannon, a cannon barrel muzzle down in a block of stone.