“A panoramic view of what once was farmer John Otto's 40-acre cornfield at Antietam. This was taken from the rebels' perspective. In the field of head-high corn on Sept. 17, 1862, the 16th Connecticut was battered, many men skedaddling for the rear. (Two deserters fled all the way to England.) Some of the regiment's wounded lay in this field for 40 hours, only rescued when Union burial parties discovered them on Friday, Sept. 19. Many of the wounded were taken to Otto's barn, where a makeshift field hospital had been set up. Some of the most serious cases were later taken to the German Reformed Church on Sharpsburg's main street.”