Battle of South Mountain
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The Battle of South Mountain, known in several early Southern accounts as the Battle of Boonsboro Gap, was fought on September 14, 1862, as part of the Maryland campaign of the American Civil War. Thr
Union Corps under General Franklin attacking Confederate troops at Crampton's gap. Harper's Weekly, October 25, 1862.
Fox's Gap at the battle of South Mountain, MD. Sunday, Sept. 14, 1862
Northern field of battle
Confederate dead at Fox's Gap at Crossroads by Wise House
Battle of Antietam
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The Battle of Antietam, also called the Battle of Sharpsburg, particularly in the Southern United States, took place during the American Civil War on September 17, 1862, between Confederate General Ro
Battle of South Mountain
…victory at South Mountain condemned the garrison at Harpers Ferry to capture and gave Lee time to unite his scattered divisions at Sharpsburg for the Battle of Antietam on September 17. The American Battlefield Trust and its battlefield land preservation partners have acquired and preserved 703 acres of the South…
Depiction of the fighting near Dunker Church by Thure de Thulstrup
Maj. Gen. George B. McClellan, Army of the Potomac (USA)
Gen. Robert E. Lee, Army of Northern Virginia (CSA)
Dead soldiers near the Dunker Church