A report on Robert C. Buchanan, Second Battle of Bull Run and Battle of Antietam

Second Battle of Bull Run, fought Augt. 29th 1862, 1860s lithograph by Currier and Ives
The Battle of Antietam, by Kurz & Allison (1878), depicting the scene of action at Burnside's Bridge
Grave of Buchanan at Rock Creek Cemetery
Northeastern Virginia (1862)
The Battle of Antietam, by Kurz & Allison (1878), depicting the scene of action at Burnside's Bridge
Second Bull Run Campaign, August 17–30, 1862 (Additional map).
Lincoln with McClellan and staff at the Grove Farm after the battle. Notable figures (from left) are 1. Col. Delos Sackett; 4. Gen. George W. Morell; 5. Alexander S. Webb, Chief of Staff, V Corps; 6. McClellan;. 8. Dr. Jonathan Letterman; 10. Lincoln; 11. Henry J. Hunt; 12. Fitz John Porter; 15. Andrew A. Humphreys; 16. Capt. George Armstrong Custer.
Battlefield of Manassas (right side)
The Battle of Antietam, by Kurz & Allison (1878), depicting the scene of action at Burnside's Bridge
Action at Brawner's Farm, August 28
Battlefield of Antietam, situation September 15 to 16, 1862
August 29, 10 a.m.: Sigel's attack
Overview of the Battle of Antietam
August 29, 12 noon: Longstreet arrives, Porter stalls
Assaults by the I Corps, 5:30 to 7:30 a.m.
August 29, 3 p.m.: Grover's attack
Dead Confederate soldiers from Starke's Louisiana Brigade, on the Hagerstown Turnpike, north of the Dunker Church. Photograph by Alexander Gardner.
August 29, 5–7 p.m., Kearny's attack, Hood vs. Hatch
Assaults by the XII Corps, 7:30 to 9:00 a.m.
Stonewall Jackson's cannons on Henry House Hill
The Dunker Church after September 17, 1862. Here, both Union and Confederate dead lie together on the field.
August 30, 3 p.m., Porter's attack
Assaults by the XII and II Corps, 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.
August 30, 4 p.m.: Start of Longstreet's attack
Sunken Road
August 30, 4:30 p.m.: Union defense of Chinn Ridge
The Bloody Lane in 2005
August 30, 5 p.m.: Final Confederate attacks, beginning of the Union retreat
Confederate dead lie in the "Bloody Lane" after the Battle of Antietam, 1862.
Bridge crossed by the Union troops retreating to Centreville
Assaults by the IX Corps, 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
Soldiers stand next to a completely destroyed Henry House in 1862
Confederate dead gathered for burial after the battle. Photograph by Alexander Gardner.
Union troops retreat after the battle
Photograph by Alexander Gardner of Lincoln and McClellan near the Antietam battlefield, October 3, 1862
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<center>Soldiers stand next to a completely destroyed Henry House in 1862</center>
{{center|Charge of the 51st New York and 51st Pennsylvania across Burnside's Bridge, by Edwin Forbes}}
<center>Virginia, Bull Run. Ruins of Stone Bridge, 1862</center>
{{center|Battle of Antietam by Kurz and Allison}}
<center>A group of men stand near the Manassas Railroad Junction railroad tracks in 1862 with a train in the background</center>
{{center|Confederate guns on the hill above poured fire into the Union ranks at Burnside's bridge. Photo taken just after the Battle of Antietam, 1862.}}
<center>A group of men near Manassas Railroad Junction in 1862</center>
Union positions below the Confederates at Burnside Bridge
<center>A group of men near Manassas Railroad Junction in 1862</center>
Burnside Bridge in 2012
<center>Men sit near the Manassas Junction railroad in 1862</center>
{{center|Confederate soldiers on the Antietam battlefield as they fell inside the fence on the Hagerstown road, September 1862 by Alexander Gardner}}
<center>Picking up debris of trains after Pope's retreat</center>
{{center|Harper's Weekly drawing of dead soldiers on Antietam battlefield, based on Gardner photograph}}
<center>Bull Run, Va. Dedication of the battle monument; Judge Abram B. Olin of the District of Columbia Supreme Court, who delivered the address, stands by the rail.</center>
{{center|Confederate horses lay dead and artillery caissons destroyed on Antietam battlefield<ref>Site identified by Frassanito, pp. 168–70.</ref>}}
Battle map drafted by Sneden, Robert Knox, with notes on Union and Confederate strengths, casualties, done in pen and ink and water color
{{center|Dead on Antietam battlefield<ref>Site identified by Robert Kalasky, "Military Images" Volume XX, Number 6 May–June 1999, pp. 24–29.</ref>}}
Northern Virginia Campaign, August 7–28, 1862 Confederate Union
{{center|Confederate dead at Bloody Lane, looking east from the north bank. Alexander Gardner photograph.}}
{{center|Confederate dead at Bloody Lane, looking northeast from the south bank. Alexander Gardner photograph.<ref>The Union soldiers looking on were likely members of the 130th Pennsylvania, who were assigned burial detail</ref>}}
{{center|"Confederate soldier who after being wounded had evidently dragged himself to a little ravine on the hillside where he died". Photograph by Alexander Gardner.}}
{{center|Federal burial party, by Alexander Gardner<ref>Site identified by Frassanito, pp. 144–47.</ref>}}
{{center|Burying Union dead on the Antietam battlefield}}
{{center|"A Lonely Grave"—Federal grave at Antietam, by Alexander Gardner<ref>Site identified by Frassanito, pp. 171–74.</ref>}}
{{center|Antietam Battlefield photograph, by Alexander Gardner<ref>Original description claimed "Battlefield of Antietam on the Day of the Battle" September 17, 1862; however, see Frassanito, pp. 70–73.</ref>}}
{{center|"Artillery Hell", by James Hope (Dunker Church at the far left)}}
{{center|"A Fateful Turn"—Late morning looking east toward the Roulette Farm", by James Hope}}
{{center|"The Aftermath at Bloody Lane", by James Hope}}
{{center|"Wasted Gallantry", by James Hope}}
{{center|"A Crucial Delay", by James Hope}}
{{center|The Lutheran Church just east of Sharpsburg marks the extent of the Union offensive during the Battle of Antietam, 1862.}}
"Battle of Antietam" by Thure de Thulstrup, showing the charge of the Iron Brigade near Dunker Church

Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia—about 55,000 men —entered the state of Maryland on September 3, following their victory at Second Bull Run on August 30.

- Battle of Antietam

He then fought in the Northern Virginia Campaign in the Second Battle of Bull Run.

- Robert C. Buchanan

At Antietam, Buchanan strongly protested a decision to halt his advance on what he maintained was a weakly defended portion of the enemy line.

- Robert C. Buchanan

Brig. Gen. George Sykes (brigades of Lt. Col. Robert C. Buchanan, Maj. Charles S. Lovell, and Col. Gouverneur K. Warren).

- Battle of Antietam

Brig Gen. George Sykes (brigades of Lt. Col. Robert C. Buchanan, Lt. Col. William Chapman, Col. Gouverneur K. Warren, Cpt. Stephen H. Weed)

- Second Battle of Bull Run

(These were the same tactics that Jackson would employ at the Battle of Antietam a few weeks later.) Schurz's two brigades (under Brig. Gen. Alexander Schimmelfennig and Col. Włodzimierz Krzyżanowski) skirmished heavily with Gregg and Thomas, with both sides committing their forces piecemeal.

- Second Battle of Bull Run

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