Confederate Monuments at Antietam
“Brockenbrough’s Battery”
The monument to the Baltimore (Maryland) Battery (CSA) is located on the west side of the Philadelphia Brigade park. (Philadelphia Brigade park tour map) It was dedicated on May 30, 1900.
Monument to the Confederate Baltimore (Maryland) Battery on the Antietam battlefield
Captain John Bowyer Brockenbrough commanded the Baltimore Battery at the Battle of Antietam. Brockenbrough was from Lexington, Virginia, and was a graduate of the University of Virginia and the Washington College Law School. He helped organize the Rockbridge Artillery at the start of the war and was wounded at First Manassas. He resigned after the battle and in March of 1862 became captain of the Baltimore Artillery. Brockenbrough would be wounded again at Fredericksburg. He would be promoted to major before being discharged for disability in March of 1864. After the war he practiced law and held several Federal government positions.
The Baltimore Battey was armed at Antietam with four guns of different types: a 3 inch Ordnance Rifle, a 12-pounder Blakely Rifle, a 10-pounder Parrott Rifle, and an iron 12-pounder smoothbore howitzer. The battery was reported to have fired the first artillery shots of the battle on the morning of September 17.
From the monument
Maryland
Baltimore Battery
Jackson’s Division
C.S.A.
The Battery, under
the command of Capt.
J.B. Brockenbrough,
occupied a position
near this marker at
daybreak, and opened
the battle on the
Confederate side.
The monument to the
Maryland troops is
near the Dunkard
Church.
From the sign next to the 12-pounder howitzer
The Baltimore Battery (Confederate)
fired from this spot into the
Union forces in the Cornfield. It
included a 12-pounder iron howitzer
(like the small gun before you), the
only one of its kind among the 500
cannon at Antietam
Location of the Monument to the Baltimore (Maryland) Battery at Antietam
The monument to Maryland’s Baltimore Battery (C.S.A.) is located on the west side of the Philadelphia Brigade park. The park is north of the Visitor Center on the west side of the Hagerstown Pike. (39°28’40.0″N 77°45’00.1″W)