2nd Wisconsin in the Cornfield

2nd Wisconsin — Into the Cornfield If you wear the black hat of the 2nd Wisconsin,

here’s where your regiment stood at Antietam. Dawn. September 17,

1862. The Cornfield. You were the first to enter. The first to fire.

The first to fall. In twenty minutes, you lost 150 men. One in every two. But you held the

line. You drove the Confederates back. And the Iron Brigade earned its name.

If you wear that hat today, you carry the legacy of the Cornfield. Subscribe for more

true Civil War stories in War Stories & Shadows.