Rubuta ci gaba ga wannan sakin layi - A ranar 1 ga Yuni, 1862, yayin da yake jagorantar rundunar sojojin Union a Fair Oaks
, Howard ya ji rauni sau biyu a hannunsa na dama, wanda aka yanke shi daga baya. (Ya karbi lambar yabo a 1893 don jaruntakarsa a Fair Oaks.) Brig. Janar Philip Kearny, wanda ya rasa hannunsa na hagu, ya ziyarci Howard kuma ya yi ba'a cewa za su iya sayen safofin hannu tare. Howard ya dawo da sauri don sake shiga sojojin don yakin Antietam, inda ya tashi zuwa kwamandan kwamandan a cikin II Corps. An gabatar da shi zuwa babban janar a watan Nuwamba na 1862 kuma ya dauki umurnin XI Corps a watan Afrilu na gaba, ya maye gurbin Manjo Janar Franz Sigel. Tun da yawancin sojojin sun kasance 'yan gudun hijirar Jamus ne, da yawa daga cikinsu ba su iya Turanci ba, sojojin sun yi fushi da sabon shugabansu kuma sun yi kira a fili don a mayar da Sigel.