VALOR
Reserve Artillery
Sharpsburg, United States
<center><b>C.S.A.<br>Reserve Artillery,<br>Army of Northern Virginia,</b><br>Brig. Gen. William N. Pendleton, Commanding.<br>September 16-18, 1862.</center><br>A portion of the Reserve Artillery took part in the battle of September 16-17; The rest was posted at the fords, in the vicinity of Williamsport and Shepherdstown, to command the crossings of the Potomac River.<br><br>On the 16th the artillery was posted on the high ground either side of the Boonsboro' Pike, east of Sharpsburg, from which it engaged the long-range artillery of the Army of the Potomac which occupied the high ground on the east side of the Antietam.