The Early’s Brigade, Ewell’s Division marker is on the west side of Philadelphia Brigade Park, near the Baltimore Battery monument and cannon. (Philadelphia Brigade Park tour map)

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Jackson’s Command

Early’s Brigade, Ewell’s Division

Brig. Gen Jubal A. Early, Commanding.

Organization.
13th, 25th, 31st, 44th, 49th, 52nd
and 58th Virginia Infantry

September 17-18, 1862    No.2.

After supporting Jackson’s Division in repulsing the right of the First Army Corps on the plateau west of the Hagerstown Pike, Early’s Brigade, moving through the West Woods and along their western edge to this point, advanced east and, in co-operation with portions of McLaws’ Division, drove the 125th Pennsylvania and 34th New York from the woods near the church. Then, wheeling to the left, supported by the Brigades of Semmes, Anderson and Barksdale, and portions of Jackson’s Division, struck the flank of Sedgwick’s Division and forced it to retire from the field. The Brigade was then reformed and withdrawn to the position occupied by it in the morning and, later in the day, moved to the northern part of the West Woods, where it remained until the night of the 18th, when it recrossed the Potomac

No. 379.