Walking Around in Marid (September, 2023)
Title:Walking Madrid
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Place:[40.4199777666667,-3.7012]
Date:2023:09:03 11:01:07
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7th Regiment Pennsylvania Reserves
36th Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry
The 7th Regiment Pennsylvania Reserves was commanded at Antietam by Major Chauncey A. Lyman after its colonel, Henry Bolinger, was wounded at Turner’s Gap on South Mountain on September 14.
The Pennsylvania Reserves were a division of 15 Pennsylvania regiments that were originally raised in excess of the state’s quota. Secretary of War Cameron refused to accept them, and Governor Curtin made the decision to equip and train them at state expense. They were designated as “Pennsylvania Reserves” and numbered 1-15. Within a short time the War Department realized that they would be needed after all. They were taken into Federal service and were assigned a number as Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, but they preferred the designation of Pennsylvania Reserves.
All 15 regiments of the Pennsylvania Reserves fought at Antietam, but there are only monuments to four. Why? The Pennsylvania Reserves Division was divided into three brigades. After the first year of the war the badly battered division was transferred to the Washington Defences to rest and rebuild. But two brigades were reattached to the Army of the Potomac just in time to take part in the Battle of Gettysburg. One brigade remained behind to defend Washington. When Pennsylvania made state money available after the war to create monuments to its Civil War veterans, all of the Pennsylvania Reserves that fought at Gettysburg chose to put their monuments there. The four regiments that weren’t at Gettysburg put their monuments at Antietam.
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Although now part of the Mumma Farm, and known as Mumma Cemetery, this site was first established as a burial ground by the Orndorff family. Living on this farm at the time of his death, Major Christian Orndorff II was buried here in December 1797.
Orndorff came to the Sharpsburg area in 1762 from Lancaster County, Pennsylvania and settled on the banks of Antietam Creek where he established a milling operation. A known patriot, he became an active organizer and leader during the Revolutionary War. He was commissioned a major in the American Army in 1778. In September of 1871 at the request of General Washington, he returned home and operated his flour mill to furnish supplies for the Continental Army. Christian acquired large tracts of land and settled on this property after retiring from milling in 1790.
The Orndorff heirs sold this farm to the Mumma family in 1811. When Elizabeth Hoffman Orndorff, wife of Christian II died in 1829, it is believed that she was also buried here. The exact location of these early Orndorff graves has unfortunately been lost to time and the elements.
In 1873, the cemetery was enlarged. The stone wall was constructed and the Mumma family deeded to specific members of the Dunker Church the right to be buried here.
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U.S.A.
Willcox’s Division, Ninth Army Corps
Brig. Gen. Orlando B. Willcox, Commanding.
September 16-17, 1862.
On the night of September 16th Willcox’s Division was held in reserve behind the ridge on the east bank of the Antietam, about one mile from the Burnside Bridge. On the afternoon of the 17th the Division crossed the bridge and, relieving Sturgis’ Division, formed on the right of the line with Crook’s Brigade in support.
In the general advance of the Ninth Corps on Sharpsburg, the Division moved on either side of the road from the bridge to the town until the center reached this elevation, when, the left flank of the Corps having been turned, the Division was withdrawn to the banks of the Antietam, where it remained until the evening of the 18th, when it was relieved by Morell’s Division of the Fifth Army Corps.
A section of the 8th Massachusetts Battery, under Lieut. John N. Coffin, accompanied the Division in its advance and went into position in Otto’s orchard about 350 yards south of this point.