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Battle of South Mountain
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Battle of South Mountain
(Battle of Boonsboro Gap)
Part of the American Civil War
The American Soldier, 1862 - by H. Charles McBarron.jpg
The American Soldier, 1862, by H. Charles McBarron, showing U.S. soldiers attacking the Confederates at Turner's Gap in 1862
Date September 14, 1862
Location
Frederick County and Washington County,
near Boonsboro, Maryland
39°29?06?N 77°37?18?WCoordinates: 39°29?06?N 77°37?18?W
Result Union victory
Belligerents
United States United States (Union) Confederate States of America CSA (Confederacy)
Commanders and leaders
United States George B. McClellan
United States Ambrose Burnside
United States William B. Franklin
United States Lucius Fairchild Confederate States of America Robert E. Lee
Confederate States of America D. H. Hill
Strength
28,000 18,000
Casualties and losses
2,325 total
(443 killed, 1,807 wounded, 75 missing) 2,685 total
(325 killed, 1560 wounded, 800 missing)
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Maryland Campaign
Mile Hill Harpers Ferry Crampton's Gap South Mountain Antietam Shepherdstown Chambersburg Raid Unison
Fox's Gap at the battle of South Mountain, MD. Sunday, Sept. 14, 1862
The Battle of South Mountain-known in several early Southern accounts as the Battle of Boonsboro Gap-was fought 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.[1] 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.[2]
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