Mumma Farm

Before the Battle of Antietam began on the morning of September 17th, Confederate troops in Brigadier General D. H. Hill's Division, positioned several hundred yards south, had burned the Mumma Farm buildings down to make sure the structures were not used as sniper posts by advancing Federal soldiers. One outbuilding survived the destruction, as did the Mumma Cemetery, and they both remain to today. The Mumma Farm house was later rebuilt, and extended with additional outbuildings.

Both the Mumma Farm and its neighboring Roulette Farm were traversed by Federal and Confederate troops as they advanced and retreated from the scenes of fighting during the Battle of Antietam's late morning and midday combat. These two farm locales, however, are more closely associated with the midday and early afternoon fighting that centered on the Sunken Road (Bloody Lane). In particular, Federal Major General Edwin V. Sumner's II Corps crossed these farm fields as they approached the fighting from the east and northeast.

 

Antietam Battlefield-Sharpsburg Md.

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