South Mountain, Battle of, Md., 1862
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Wikidata:
Q1542829
Library of congress:
sh 85125586
Sources of Information
- Brit. Micro.(South Mountain; The American Civil War Battle of South Mountain took place near Burkittsville, Md., on Sept. 14, 1862)
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Wikipedia description:
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. Three pitched battles were fought for possession of three South Mountain passes: Crampton's, Turner's, and Fox's Gaps. Maj. Gen. George B. McClellan, commanding the Union Army of the Potomac, needed to pass through these gaps in his pursuit of Confederate General Robert E. Lee's precariously divided Army of Northern Virginia. Although the delay bought at South Mountain would allow him to reunite his army and forestall defeat in detail, Lee considered termination of the Maryland Campaign at nightfall.
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