The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1907-09-19


the Second, Seventh, Ninth, Tenth,
Twelfth, Thirteenth, Fifteenth, Eigh-
teenth, Nineteenth, Twentieth, Twenty
first, Twenty-second, Twenty-eighth,
Twenty-ninth, Thirty-seconda and Thirty
fifth Infantry, the First Cavalry, and
First, Third and Eighth Batteries, the
First and Second Companies of shalp-
shooters. On tablet in the rear ap-
pears a complete map of the battlefield.
This like many other monuments, is
within fenced inclosure.
After crossing the Hagerstown pike
Cornfield avenue becomes known as
Stark avenue, named in honor of Gen.
William S. Stark, Confederate officer,
killed in the battle To the right of the
monument to the One Hundred and
Twentyfourth Pennsylvania Infantry,
surmounted by a bronze statue of its
colonel, Joseph W. Hawley.
Confederate avenue is next reached.
1t extends along the Confederate front
as it was after the battle in what was
then known as the West We Is. 1t
runs both north and south from the in
tersection with Stark avenue, but there
are no monuments to the north.
Drying south the visitors finds on the
east side Of the avenue the memorial to
the gallantry of the Fifteenth Massa-
chusetts Regiment, which here mace q
desperate but futile charge into the
Confederate lines. SevCnty-five men
were killed outright, 43 died of wounds,
70 We're reported missing. and the trtal
casualty list was $50. Well chosen for
a testimonial to sIch desperate courage
was the recumbent granite figure of a
wounded lion that adOrns the monument.
Confederate avenue tulns abruptly to
the eastward several hundred yards be
low the Fifteenth Massachusetts monu-
ment, rr0ning towal ! the historic Dun
kard Church. Along this part of the
avenue are the One Hund~eI and Twe.-
ty-fifth Pennsylv ania Infantry and the
Thirty-fourth New York Infantry mon
uments, the latter in the form of an en-
battled tower.
The Dunkard Church is near the Ha-
gerstoWh pike. 1t is today the same
small. single-room brick building that it
was in war time. Several holes made
by cannon balls have been repaired, but
orlfices made by bullets are still to be
seen. The rude benches of ante-bellum
days are still used at the services held
once a month. A precious relic here is
a Bible taken from the church, after
the battle, by Nathan Dykman, Of
Company II, One Hundred and Seventh
New YORK Volunteers, and returned in
1903, Al years later.
Across the pike at this point is the
Maryland monume It, granite column
ed copula, unique in that it was proba-
bly, the first monument erected to op-
posing forces. The organizations in
whose honor this imposing memorial
was built were: Union -Purnell Legion,
infantry; Battalion B, First Maryland
Light Artillery; Third Regiment, Mary
land Infantry; Walcott's Battery A,
First Ma land Artillery; Fifth Regi-
ment, Maryland Infantry Confederate
- First Maryland Light Artillery; Bal
timore Battalion, Light Artillery.
The are four bronzes showing battle
scenes, eight bronze inscription tablets
and eight bronze coats of arms on the
octagonal structure Its cost was $l2,
900, and in addition Maryland has a
number of granite markers, capped by
bronze coats Of arms, at different points
in the field.
Near the Maryland mCnument is
tall shaft erected to the memory of the
Fifth, Seventh and Sixty-sixth Ohio
Regiments.
On the west side of the pike, north of
the Dunkard Church, is found the 10
acre Philadelphia Brigade Park, owned
now by the city of Philadelphia.
Members of the Philadelphia Brigade
Association were pioneers in the adorn-
ment Of Antietam and raised SIS. 600 to
obtain this reservation and erected
within it tall shaft in memory of the
brigade, composed of the Sixty-ninth,
Seventy-first, Seventy-second and the
One Hundred and Sixth Pennsylvania
which lost 545 men in the
engagement. A handsome iron gate
has just been erected at the main en-
trance to this enclosure, on which are
bronzes showing the State and city
coats of arms. Governrrs Hastings and
LoWhdes attended the dedication of the
monument, September II, 1896, and
Gen. Henry Kyd Douglas, in war times
one of Stonewall Jackson's staff officers,
was one of the orators.
Richardson avenue, named after Gen.
Israel B. Richardson, Ilns eastward
from the Hagerstown pike at a point
not far south Of the Dunkard Church,
along the farfamed Bloody Lane, and
thence takes an irregular course to the
Boonsboro pike. 1t is replete with in
tereStinU feat ares Hare tho COp God