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

Pennsylvania. At the east end of the
lane is a stone Obsfl walton tower, 70
feet high, on which is a bionze coping
informing the observer by arrows and
inscriptions the distance and direction
of the many points of interest within
view.
Rodman avenue, named after Gen.
Isaac P. Rodman, begins at the Boons-
boro pike and runs south to the Burn
side bridge road. 1t is adorned by the
| Fiftieth Pennsylvania monument sur
mounted by bronze statue of Col. B.
F. Christ. Turning eastward into the
Burnside bridge road, the celebrated
stone arch structure across the Antietam
creek is reached by half mile of road,
winding among the hills that Lees men
stubbo. lily defend l.
At this bridge the Confederate right
levied heavy toll in human life before a
crossing was made by the Union left,
held by Burnside's Ninth Corps.
INC LlSNSiltI CoilitCliCuJ infantry
made the first attempt 10 carry the
bridge, support | by Crooks Brigade,
but faileG. Nagle's Brigade was like
wise unsuccessful. At noon, however,
Ferrara's Brigade, which consisted of
the Fifty-frst Pennsylvania, the Fifty
first New York, the Twenty second and
| Thirty-ffth Massachusetts, forced the
passage and caused the conflict to be
| come as general at the south end Of the
field as it had been at the north.
Markers are at the four ends of the
coping of this beautiful bridge, one
erected by Lieut-Col Albert A. Pope
to his dead comrades of the Thirty-fifth
Massachusetts; one, a large granite
mimic ball, by the Twenty-frst Massa-
chusetts Regimental Association to it's
fallen; one by the State of Maryland to
The Second Maryland Infantry, and one
by the survivors of the Fifty-frst
Pennsylvania Volunteers to the 27 men,
bers of that re Eiment killed and 81
wounded in making the successful
charge.
Nearby the Fifty-frst New York
Regiment has made the latest addition
to the battlefield monuments, which is
to be dedicated on the anniversary of
the battle this year. Along the burn
side Bridge road are to be found the
Eleventh Connecticut and McMullen's
Battery First Ohio Monuments.
One Of the regiments which followed
Fercaras Brigade was the Twenty
third Ohio. William Mckinley being its
commissary sergeant at the time To-
ward the evening, withous orders, he
took to his comrades who were behind
the firing line supply of coffee and
rations and won promotion for this
missionary work. On the spot where
this occurred the State of Ohio has
erected fine shaft costing about s., 900,
decorated by a bronze medallion show
ing Mckinley as he was in 1862 and in
1901, above which rests a female figure
in granite in the act of enwreathing the
murdered President Beneath is anoth-
err bronze showing Mckinley on the field
with his welcome coffee pail. The
Government has built road leading to
this monument al a cost, including i'm
provements 20 the site, Of 81, 600
The traveller must now retrace his
way along the Burnside Bridge road to
point where Branch avenue, nam 4
after Gen. !. OBJ. Branch. extends
southwark. There are to be seen along
the avenue monuments erected by the
Ftrty-ifth and One Hundredth Pennsyl-
yania, the Thirty sixth Ohio, the
Twenty-eighth Ohio, the Twenty-third
Ohio, the ThirtIeth Ohio, the Fifty-frst
Pennsylvania and the Forty-eighth
Pennsylvania, surmOunted by bronze
statue of General Maggie. and DurelPs
Pennsylvania Battery In the distance
are the monuments of the Eleventh
Ohio, Twelfth Ohio, Sixteenth Con
iItN'INAI, LlSlItl ND4lllt -tlCul anu MINI
New York J1'-atry (FaV ms T.
aves). The twenty-third Ohio Regiment
had the distinction of furnishing two
Presidents of the United States Hayes
and Mckinley.
The monuments to the Fourth New
York Volunteers and Twentieth New
York Volunteers Turner Kifies) are
within the Antietam National Gene
terry. One erected by the State of
Vermont to Company F, First Regi-
ment Of the United States Sharpshoot-
ars, is on the Boonsboro pike, about
two miles from Sharpsburg, and dis
tant from the route of which descrip-
ton has been made.
In addition to the other monuments
on the battlefield are six inverted 12-
por7d cannon imbo in rock which
were placed by the Government on the
spots where six general officers fell
mortally wounded three Union, Gen
erals Rodman, Richardson and Mans
field, and three Confederates, Generals
Branch, Anderson and Stark.
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