The Sunken Road is now to forever to be known as Bloody Lane. The rebels laid and waited in the road while the Union troops came over the hill a hundred yards away and started towards them. Line after line union troops began to fall back on the long slope in front of Bloody lane that morning. This was the single most bloodiest part of the battle. The rebels heroic stand at Bloody Lane gave General Longstreet the time to set up twenty cannons and assembled a line of defense just west of Hagerstown Turnpike. Longstreet's cannons held off the Union advance for a time, but he was desperately low on ammunition. So he sent his troops to Burnside Bridge.

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