28th Ohio Volunteer Infantry Monument

OHIO

28th Infantry

Commanded by

Lieut. Col. Gottsfried Becker

Crooks (2d) Brigade

Kanawha Division

Ninth Army Corps

Army of the Potomac

 

This Regiment was conducted by Gen. Crook on a reconnoissance above the Bridge over Antietam Creek on the morning of Sept. 17, 1862, and 5 companies succeeded in crossing the Creek before the capture of the bridge; it then formed part of the forces that charged and drove the enemy from the creek.

 

Its loss was 2 men killed; 19 men wounded; total 21.

 

Antietam Battlefield-Sharpsburg Md.

Done