The marker for Field’s Brigade of Hill’s Light Division is on the north side of Branch Avenue, near the Harpers Ferry Road. (Branch Avenue South tour map)

From the marker:

C.S.A.
Jackson’s Command

Field’s Brigade, Hill’s Light Division

Col. John M. Brockenbrough, 40th Virginia Infantry, Commanding.

Organization.
40th Virginia Infantry
47th Virginia Infantry
55th Virginia Infantry
22d Virginia Infantry

September 17, 1862.

Field’s Brigade left Harpers Ferry at 7:30 A.M. of September 17, reached this point about 3 P.M. and was put in position to guard the approaches to the field by Snavely’s Ford and the lower Antietam.

The Brigade was not actively engaged, and recrossed the Potomac early on the morning of September 19.

No. 349.