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Confederate Monuments at Antietam

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The State of Texas monument on the Antietam battlefield is on Cornfield Avenue. (Cornfield Avenue West tour map) It was dedicated on November 11, 1964.

There is also a State of Texas monument on the Gettysburg battlefield, on the Manassas battlefield, and on the Wilderness battlefield, identical in appearance but with different inscriptions.

From the monument:

TEXAS

Remembers the valor and devotion of
her sons who served at Sharpsburg
September 16 – 17, 1862

Here in the Cornfield early on the
morning of September 17 the Texas
Brigade helped blunt the attack of
elements of Mansfield’s Union Corps.
Almost alone during this powerful
Federal onslaught the Texas Brigade
sealed a threatening gap in the
Confederate line. In so doing the 1st
Texas Infantry Regiment suffered a
casualty rate of 82.3 percent, the
greatest loss suffered by any infantry
regiment, North or South, during the war.
Of approximately 850 men engaged the
Texas Brigade counted over 550
casualties.

Texas troops at Sharpsburg were:
1st Texas Inf., Lt. Col. P.A. Work; 4th
Texas Inf., Lt. Col. B.F. Carter; 5th Texas
Inf., Capt. Ike N.M. Turner.
(Col. W.T. Wofford’s Texas Brigade
Hood’s Division, Longstreet’s Corps)

The Texas Brigade included the 18th
Georgia Inf., Lt. Col. S.Z. Ruff, Hampton
South Carolina Legion (Inf. Cos.) Lt.
Col. M. W. Gary

A Memorial to Texans
Who served the Confederacy
Erected by the State of Texas 1964 

Location of the State of Texas monument at Antietam

The State of Texas monument on the Antietam battlefield is north of Sharpsburg on the south side of Cornfield Avenue.