An over view of the area where the two armies
first met. Union skirmishers stopped the Confederate advance
down the Washington Pike, just visible here on the left of the
picture. The fields ahead (on the right of the Pike) made up
the Best farm, where Confederate artillery unlimbered and
bombarded the Union troops holding the bridge over the river.
(Click here for a
larger picture.)
The monument commemorating the Southern troops
stands here, as well as a white plaque marking this location as
where Lee's lost order number 191 was found, during the earlier
Antietam campaign.
Close up of the monument.
A monument commemorating the
centenary of the battle.
