New York Monuments at Antietam
“Hawkins’ Zouaves”
The monument to the 9th New York Volunteer Infantry Regiment at Antietam is on the east side Harpers Ferry Road. (Harpers Ferry Road tour map) It was dedicated in 1897.
The 9th New York was commanded at Antietam by Lieutenant Colonel Edgar A. Kimball. It brought 373 men to the field in eight companies of infantry, with Company F detached in North Carolina and Company K operating as Whiting’s Battery of Artillery. The regiment lost 45 men killed, 176 wounded and 14 missing in the attack from Antietam Creek up the slopes to the town of Sharpsburg. The 9th New York was attached to the First Brigade of the Third Division of the Ninth Army Corps.
Captain Adolphe Libaire of Company E received the Medal of Honor for his actions at Antietam. Libaire picked up the regiment’s colors after the color bearers had been killed or wounded and led the charge up the hill.
Monument to the 9th New York Infantry Regiment
Text from the west side of the monument:
Toujours Pret*
Erected by the State of New
York to the memory of the 9th
New York Infantry – Hawkins’
Zouaves – who fought on
this Field, Sept. 17, 1862.
*(Always Ready)
From the north side:
Members present for duty in
action 373, killed 54, wounded 158,
missing 28, total loss 240.
Two Companies were detailed
and engaged elsewhere and did not
participate in the advance.
From the south side:
The greatest mortality occurred
near this position, where the Regi-
ment contended with a superior
force of infantry and artillery.
From the east side:
About 2 P.M. having forded the Antietam
Creek, the regiment meeting with
desperate resistance, advanced to
this position and held it until
ordered elsewhere.
Location of the monument to the 9th New York infantry at Antietam
The monument to the 9th New York Volunteer Infantry is southeast of Sharpsburg. It can be reached from a walkway that starts from the east side of Harpers Ferry Road 530 yards south of High Street in Sharpsburg. The walkway then heads 420 yards east and then north to the monument. (39°27’10.1″N 77°44’37.6″W)