The monument to the 16th Connecticut Infantry Regiment at Antietam is about 150 yards east of Branch Avenue on the Otto farm. It was dedicated on October 8, 1894. (see map)
The 16th Connecticut was commanded at Antietam by Colonel Francis Beach. The regiment was only two weeks off the trains from Connecticut and almost totally innocent of military training and experience when it was thrown into battle at Antietam. They had loaded their muskets for the first time only the day before the battle.
Struck in the flank in a field of tall corn by A.P. Hill's savage counterattack, the 16th Connecticut lost a quarter of its men killed and wounded in the confusion and retreat that followed.
See more about the 16th Connecticut in the Civil War
From the east side of the monument:
16th Connecticut
Vol. Infantry
2nd Brigade
3rd Division
9th Army Corps
From the south side:
Number engaged - 779
Casualties
Killed 43
Wounded 161
Total 204
From the west side:
Position of
the 16th Conn.
Vol. Infantry
5 P.M. - Sept. 17, 1862
From the north side:
Erected
by the
State of
Connecticut
1894
See enlargement of the bronze tablet from the west side of the monument (below)
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