28th Ohio Volunteer Infantry

Dedicated: 1903
Location: Branch Avenue on South end of the Battlefield
Map Number: Map 2, Position 76
   
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OHIO

28th Infantry
Commanded by
Lieut. Col. Gottsfried Becker
Crooks (2d) Brigade
Kanawha Division
Ninth Army Corps
Army of the Potomac

This Regiment was conducted by Gen. Crook on
a reconnoissance above the Bridge over Antietam Creek on the morning of Sept. 17, 1862, and 5 companies succeeded in crossing the Creek before the capture of the bridge; it then formed part of the forces that charged and drove the enemy from the creek.

Its loss was 2 men killed; 19 men wounded;
total 21.

 

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