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	Battle of South Mountain -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Battle of South Mountain, fought September 14, 1862, was part of the (Click link for more info and facts about Maryland Campaign) Maryland Campaign of the (Civil war in the United States between the North and the South; 1861-1865) American Civil War.
		South Mountain is the name given to the continuation of the (A range of the Appalachians extending from Pennsylvania to northern Georgia) Blue Ridge Mountains after they enter (A Mid-Atlantic state; one of the original 13 colonies) Maryland.
		On September 14, pitched battles were fought for possession of the South Mountain passes: Crampton's, Turner's, and Fox's Gaps.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/b/ba/battle_of_south_mountain.htm (338 words)

	South Mountain - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		South Mountain, Texas is a town in Texas.
		South Mountain Park is a municipal park in Phoenix, Arizona.
		South Mountain is the name given to the continuation of the Blue Ridge Mountains after they enter Maryland.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/South_Mountain (149 words)

	Battle of South Mountain
		South Mountain is often overlooked by the Civil War novice, overshadowed by the atrocities of the Battle of Antietam (near Sharpsburg), which took place three days later and resulted in a loss of 23,000 men.
		The battle's significance is in the fact that the Army of Northern Virginia's first campaign north was stopped not at Antietam, but here in the rugged mountain gaps of South Mountain.
		The Battle of South Mountain (which was actually two separate battles), broke out on September 14 in the Fox's Gap and Turner's Gap areas after Confederate gunners opened fire on Federal forces moving toward the base of the mountain.
	www.dnr.state.md.us /publiclands/southmtbattle.html (1377 words)

	Battle of South Mountain - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		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.
		On September 14, pitched battles were fought for possession of three South Mountain passes: Crampton's, Turner's, and Fox's Gaps.
		An attack in the morning by Union General Jacob Cox secured much of the land south of the gap, but Cox failed to capitalize on his gains as his men were exhausted, allowing Confederate reinforcements to deploy in the gap around the Daniel Wise farm.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Battle_of_South_Mountain (463 words)

	The Friends of South Mountain State Battlefield - Battle of South Mountain
		However, both Antietam and South Mountain, as well as the occupation of Frederick and the siege of Harpers Ferry, are but part of a larger Civil War event known as The Maryland Campaign of 1862.
		This battle was bitterly fought for the possession of the two passes over the crest of South Mountain at Fox's Gap and Turner's Gap.
		After the Battle of South Mountain Gibbon's troops would simply be known as "The Iron Brigade." However, in contrast to other portions of the battlefield, here the terrain allowed the Southerners to hold their ground.
	www.fsmsb.org /battlesm.html (2089 words)

	Battle of South Mountain, Confederate Side
		Stone's defeat is the battle of Ball's Bluff With the Federals, and the battle of Leesburg with the Confederates.
		The battle of South Mountain was one of extraordinary illusions and delusions.
		South Mountain may be taken as a specimen of this unnatural and horrible state of things.
	www.civilwarhome.com /southmountain.htm (10860 words)

	South Mountain: Three Gaps, One Battle (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		South Mountain was still a wall, despite the Lost Orders, a barrier that screened the movements of the Army of Northern Virginia.
		Indeed, the combat at the gaps of South Mountain are well documented as wholly separate engagements, engagements in a battle, a battle in a campaign, the Maryland Campaign of 1862.
		The Battle of South Mountain may well indeed be the turning point of the Maryland Campaign of 1862, and the campaign quite possibly a pivotal event of the war, however, a fulcrum with half of the lever removed doesn’t work.
	www.bivouacbooks.com /bbv3i4s1.htm (13019 words)

	Battle Mountain, Nevada: History and Description
		Battle Mountain was the last stop for W.J. Forbes, a famous Nevada newspaperman of the l9th century.
		Battle Mountain's 30-year snooze by the side of US 40 ended suddenly when the DuVal company invested more than $20 million in the development of large copper ore bodies in the hills to the south.
		Battle Mountain's principal attraction for tourists is the bright stripe of enterprise still fronting on the highway and the railroad tracks as it has since its founding so long ago.
	www.nevadaweb.com /cnt/cc/bmtn.html (1001 words)

	Battle of South Mountain (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Army of Northern Virginia was on the west side of South Mountain, which was not a peak but a 50-mile-long ridge that stretched from the Potomac River into Pennsylvania.
		McClellan knew that three parts of Lee's army, under Gen. Stonewall Jackson, were besieging Harper's Ferry and that the rest, under Gen. James Longstreet, were at Boonsboro at the western foot of South Mountain.
		Another future president in the Battle of South Mountain was Sgt. William McKinley.
	civilwar.bluegrass.net /battles-campaigns/1862/620914.html (368 words)

	The Battle of South Mountain
		It must be remembered that the South Mountains are a continuous range of hills, and not detached heights.
		The mountain on the north side of the main road is divided into two crests by a narrow valley, which is deep where it touches the road, but much less so a mile to the north.
		The mountains are steep, rugged, and thickly wooded, and rendered peculiarly hard to climb by reason of the presence of many ledges and loose rocks.
	www.civilwarhome.com /southmountain2.htm (3363 words)

	Civil War Bookshelf: Fisking "South Mountain" - 2
		Having stated his purpose, "to set the historical record straight regarding the nature or character of the Battle of South Mountain," the author of "South Mountain," Steven Stotelmyer, then sets out in summary form several of Timothy J. Reese's arguments about the battle.
		Adherents of the tenet of separation often state as fact their belief that Crampton’s Gap and South Mountain are well documented as two wholly separate engagements, or 'battles,' that the linking of the two battles are merely literary and administrative conveniences that have only been employed in recent times.
		Which is irrelevant unless enagement explicitly subordinates to battle; count four more that do not not lump CG in with actions at Fox's or Turner's thus passively supporting the claim that all campaign documents support this tenet of separation.
	cwbn.blogspot.com /2005/02/fisking-south-mountain-2_15.html (832 words)

	76th NYSV - Uberto Burnham Remembers South Mountain (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		We turned to the right and marched along the foot of the mountain until the line had cleared the road, then faced to the left and went up the mountain in line.
		Three women came down the side of the mountain on horseback by a diagonal path and passed in front of the regiment.
		The mountain on the east side was cleared to the summit, and at the summit was a piece of wood yard about 200 yards wide.
	www.bpmlegal.com /76NY/burnham-somtn.html (2716 words)

	Civil War Bookshelf: Fisking "South Mountain" - 1 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		In his article "South Mountain: Three Gaps, One Battle," Steven R. Stotelmyer opens his essay with a note of finality: "The purpose of this paper is to set the historical record straight regarding the nature or character of the Battle of South Mountain."
		You might fairly try to square the current historical record with "the nature or character of the Battle of South Mountain," but you are making an argument and we, the jury of readers, will decide whether we have been convinced or not.
		The author sets his problem forth with a question: "Do the events of September 14, 1862, occur as separate battles on South Mountain, or are they actually part of a single battle of South Mountain.
	cwbn.blogspot.com /2005/02/fisking-south-mountain-1.html (365 words)

	Fox Gap project
		From the quiet padding of moccasins, through the tramping of mountain farmers and great armies, to the bootsteps of modern hikers, centuries of humanity have passed along or over the mountain here.
		Thousands of men fought a daylong battle here, and by the time the Confederates were finally driven out of the gap at nightfall, there were hundreds of fatalities, including a general from each army.
		The Battle of the South Mountain, while modest by the scale of the American Civil War, was extremely important.
	www.iuparchaeology.iup.edu /FoxGap/background_data.htm (1326 words)

	Samuel Boston Lathan Biography
		The battle raged back and forth, but in the end the Union forces could not hold the field and were having their flanks pushed in to the point that their main line of battle had been compressed to about half its original size and withdrew from the ridge.
		On Sabbath morning the Brigade left Funktown and marched back to South Mountain, arriving there about 4 o'clock in the afternoon, and were immediately deployed in line of battle on the crest of the mountain at right angles and to the west of the turnpike.
		I was wounded in the battle of South Mountain (Antietam).
	www.wclathan.com /biographies/lathan/samuel_boston_lathan.htm (4929 words)

	2003 Show
		The area of South Mountain between Boonsboro and Burkittsville (in Frederick County) played an important but almost forgotten role during Lee's invasion of the North in 1862.
		However, the Battle of South Mountain was eclipsed by a much deadlier battle, the Battle of Antietam.
		The stories in our "Ghosts of South Mountain" segment are taken from the three mountain passes along South Mountain in which the battle took place.
	www.antietamcable.com /specials/legends/2003_show.htm (494 words)

	South Mountain State Park
		South Mountain, a ridge composed largely of resistant quartzite, posed a formidable obstacle to the early settlers until 1755 when General Edward Braddock and a young surveyor, George Washington, constructed a road over one of its passes.
		Echo Lake, a small section of South Mountain State Park, is an area that may be reserved for organized youth groups.
		On September 14, 1862, the three most southern wind gaps of South Mountain were the sites of a successful delaying action fought by Confederate forces under General Robert E. Lee during their first invasion on the North.
	www.dnr.state.md.us /publiclands/western/southmountain.html (562 words)

	Chaplain George Gilman Smith
		This is Chaplain George Gilman Smith's account of the Phillip's Legions's fight at Fox's Gap on South Mountain September 14th 1862.
		On the Sunday morning (September 14) on which the battle of South Mountain began, we were in camp at Hagerstown.
		I had been in battle but there was not one of the soldiers in the Federal ranks for whom I had any feeling other than love.
	www.angelfire.com /tx/RandysTexas/page31.html (1074 words)

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		Overall figures for the three gaps on South Mountain reveal odds of 3.6 to 1 in favor of Union forces.
		The Battle of South Mountain proper (i.e., Turner’s and Fox’s gaps) though styled a Union victory by McClellan, was in fact a tactical defeat for Union forces.
		Therefore, South Mountain is properly defined as a strategic standoff for both armies, though it just barely qualifies as a tactical victory for Lee via D. Hill’s intrepid rearguard stand.
	www.angelfire.com /va3/valleywar/battle/cramptons-gap.html (2067 words)

	23rd.North Carolina Battle of South Mountain (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Having rushed south of the Old Sharpsburg Road, the 5th North Carolina, the general's southernmost regiment, veered off to the east, where the wood road made a sharp turn west.
		A seemingly impenetrable forest and laurel thicket bordered the Confederate position on the south and the west.
		Farther to the south, forty men and two officers of the 11th Ohio were fighting a private war of their own.
	www.spaceportusa.net /doorgunner/23nc01.htm (7880 words)

	William James Lathan Biography
		The fighting at South Mountain was a fierce holding action to slow the Union forces as they crossed the mountains on the "Old National Highway".
		Since this battle was between the two illnesses and his company was assigned to the fort that was blown up, he should have been in the thick of it.
		Analysis: It appears that in spite of several major and minor illnesses that Sgt. William James Lathan was in the Battles of Second Manassas; Antietam/Sharpsburg/South Mountain; Kinston, N.C.; Malvern Hill, VA (Richmond, VA.); the Rappahannock Campaign and the siege of Petersburg, VA. including the Battle of the Crater.
	www.wclathan.com /biographies/lathan/william_james_lathan.htm (2714 words)

	Battle Summary: South Mountain, MD
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		George B. McClellan pursued the Confederates to Frederick, Maryland, then advanced on South Mountain.
		By dusk the Confederate defenders were driven back, suffering severe casualties, and McClellan was in position to destroy Lee’s army before it could reconcentrate.
	www.cr.nps.gov /hps/abpp/battles/md002.htm (171 words)

	The Fine Art of Gary Casteel - Commissions & Fund Raising
		Staff photo by Sam Yu A new bronze monument, to honor North Carolina troops who fought at the Battle of South Mountain was unveiled in a ceremony Saturday at Fox's Gap, the scene of heavy fighting during this Civil War battle.
		The rugged mountain is composed largely of resistant quartzite and posed a formidable obstacle to troops.
		During this battle, about 200 men from North Carolina were surrounded and attacked from the front and sides.
	www.garycasteel.com /commissions/nc (678 words)

	The Central Maryland Heritage League Land Trust
		Although the protection of the South Mountain State Battlefield is one of our prime goals, we have also become involved in the education of both children and adults as to the many aspects of our cultural and natural heritage in the Middletown Valley and throughout Central Maryland.
		In addition to being the site of the first major Civil War battle in the Free State, the area around South Mountain is also the location of valuable farmland, forest, and wildlife habitat.
		South Mountain contains an upland biological habitat that has all but disappeared in Maryland, and which deserves responsible stewardship.
	www.cmhl.org (298 words)

	Battery B, 4th U.S. Light Artillery - Civil War Trivia
		Brigadier General Nathaniel Lyon was the first General to be killed west of the Mississippi at the battle of Wilson's Creek, Missouri (Oak Hills) in 1861.
		Among the Union wounded at the Battle of South Mountain was future U.S. President, Lt. Colonel Rutherford B.
		Another future president in the Battle of South Mountain was Sgt.
	www.batteryb.com /trivia.html (792 words)

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		Before reaching the summit, I was ordered to form in line of battle on the right of the road, but before this movement was completed the enemy opened a battery, which commanded this road.
		Cook's battery, which was just being placed in position at this time, received this fire directly in front, and from its great severity they were obliged to retire with their caissons, leaving two of their pieces in danger of being taken by the enemy.
		SIR: I have the honor to report that previous to arriving at South Mountain, September 14, in compliance with orders, two of my regiments were ordered to report to General Reno toward the right, to support several other regiments advancing into position.
	members.aol.com /Schuylkill/orchrist.htm (1555 words)

	1862 Civil War Letters - Battle of South Mountain and Antietam
		The next day we were on picket and the pickets kept firing back and forth when they got a chance.
		The enemy had possession of the battle field in the afternoon.
		The hardest part of the both battles appears to have been on the right of the Army commanded by McClellan.
	www.espd.com /letters/1862/Letter20_10_02_62.htm (1145 words)

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