Second Army Corps, marker 35

The marker for the Second Army Corps is on the north side of Boonsboro Pike, east of the Middle Bridge.

From the marker:

Second Army Corps, marker 35 of the War Department Union markers at Antietam

U.S.A.

Second Army Corps

Maj. Gen. Edwin. V. Sumner, Commanding.

September 15 and 16, 1862.

Richardson’s Division of the Second Corps, preceded by the 5th New Hampshire as skirmishers, led the Infantry advance from South Mountain on the morning of September 15 and reached this point in early afternoon, the skirmishers engaging those of the enemy beyond the Antietam. Sedgwick’s and French’s Divisions passed through Keedysville, late in the day, and bivouacked in the fields west of that place.

No. 35.