Showing posts with label Sunken Road. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Sunken Road. Show all posts

Friday, May 18, 2012

Antietam: Clipp-Roulette Farm Lane (2)


Above: The top of the observation tower on the Sunken Road-Bloody Lane viewed from the same place as the previous photo, on the Clipp-Roulette farm lane. The view is to the southeast. From this (and the previous photo), you can get a sense of how the Federal advance was actually masked by the high ground parallel to the Sunken Road. The Federals were under artillery fire, and as they topped the ridge line, were brought under heavy musketry fire by the defenders.
 
Above: View northwest from the observation tower on the Bloody Lane. The farm lane from which the previous two photos were taken is marked by the line of trees in the middle ground. The buildings of the Mumma Farm, burned during the battle, are in the distance.

Thursday, May 17, 2012

Antietam: Clipp-Roulette Farm Lane


The approach to Bloody Lane from the north on the axis of advance of Brig. Gen. Nathan Kimball’s 1st Bde., 3d Div. (French), II Corps (Sumner). “Now boys, we are going, and we’ll stay with them all day if they want us to!” – General Kimball. What ensued was “systematic killing,” according to Sgt. Thomas Galwey of the 8th Ohio Inf.