The marker for Kershaw’s Brigade of McLaw’s Division is on the west side of Hagerstown Pike south of the Dunker Church. (Visitor Center – Dunker Church tour map)

C.S.A.
Longstreet’s Command

Kershaw’s Brigade, McLaw’s Division

Brig. Gen. J.B. Kershaw, Commanding.

Organization.
2d, 3d, 7th and 8th South Carolina Infantry

(September 17, 1862.)

About 9:45 A.M., the 2d, 7th and 8th South Carolina of Kershaw’s Brigade charged out of the woods and across this road upon Tompkins’ Rhode Island Battery on the ridge about 220 yards east of this. The charge was repulsed by the Battery and Greene’s Division of Infantry, and the Brigade fell back beyond the western limits of the West Woods. Nearly one half of the officers and men of the Brigade were killed and wounded in less than fifteen minutes.

This tablet marks where the center of the Brigade crossed the road, its left reached nearly to the church.

No. 387.