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Massachusetts Monuments at Antietam

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The State of Massachusetts Monument at Antietam is located just south of the intersection of Hagerstown Turnpike and Cornfield Avenue. (Hagerstown Pike tour map) It was dedicated in 1920.

The front of the granite monument has a bronze relief of the Seal of the State of Massachusetts in the center flanked by text carved into the stone. Bronze tablets on both sides list all the Massachusetts units that participated in the Battle of Antietam.

From the text on both sides of the state seal on the front of the monument:

Erected by the
Commonweath of
Massachusetts to
mark the positions

held by her troops
at the Battle of
Antietam
September XVII
MDCCLXII

From the tablet on the left front of the monument:

Second Infantry
Seventh Infantry
Ninth Infantry
Tenth Infantry
Twelfth Infantry
Thirteenth Infantry
Fifteenth Infantry
Nineteenth Infantry
Twentieth Infantry
Twenty-first Infantry

From the tablet on the right front of the monument:

Twenty-Second Infantry
Twenty-Eighth Infantry
Twenty-Ninth Infantry
Thirty-Second Infantry
Thirty-Fifth Infantry
First Cavalry
First Battery
Third Battery
Eight Battery
First Co. Sharpshooters
Second Co. Sharpshooters

A large brass plaque on the rear of the monument shows the locations of Massachusetts units in the battle. The map shows west at the top, with the town of Sharpsburg in the upper left.

Location of the State of Massachusetts monument at Antietam

The State of Massachusetts Monument is north of Sharpsburg on the southeast side of the intersection of the Hagerstown Turnpike and Cornfield Avenue. (39°28’50.2″N 77°44’53.3″W)