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Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War: Volume 2., The battle of South Mountain , or Boonsboro ‘ (search)
The battle of South Mountain, or Boonsboro‘
Fighting for time at Turner's and Fox's gaps. by uth Mountain, and at the South the battle of Boonsboro‘. So many battle-fields of the Civil War bea Lee's army from Frederick to Hagerstown and Boonsboro‘, my division constituted the rear-guard.
I being left behind), and after the arrival at Boonsboro' was intrusted with guarding the wagon train the troops which were then at Hagerstown and Boonsboro‘. He said that he could effect more with one 's Ferry, and Longstreet and myself to go to Boonsboro‘, had fallen into the hands of the Federals, misleading report was that Longstreet was at Boonsboro‘.
Special Orders No. 191, which was the lost order, sent Longstreet to Boonsboro‘. It was afterward modified by General Lee so as to place ain Park writes:
After passing through Boonsboro‘, en route to the scene of action, we met th the Confederate forces at South Mountain, or Boonsboro‘, was: Longstreet, 8000; D. H. Hill, 7000,--
h a copy had fallen into McClellan's hands, directed the concentration of the forces under Longstreet and D. H. Hill at Boonsboro‘, where they were to be joined by those under Jackson as soon as Harper's Ferry should be taken.
McClellan's orders and correspondence show that he expected a battle at Boonsboro‘, but not at South Mountain or east of it. Pleasonton had found a rear-guard at Turner's Gap, but the support of a single brigade of infantry was assumed to be enough to enable his cavalry Mountain.
From photographs.
This monument, to the memory of George Washington, was first erected by the citizens of Boonsboro' and vicinity in 1827.
It stands on the summit, a mile and a half north of Turner's Gap [see map, p. 568]. Originally ng the battle of Antietam.
In 1882 the monument was rebuilt, as seen on the left of the picture, by the Odd Fellows of Boonsboro‘. The present height of the tower, including the observatory, is forty feet. Editors. determined effort to push us bac<
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War: Volume 2., Forcing Fox's Gap and Turner's Gap . (search)
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War: Volume 2., The finding of Lee 's lost order. (search)
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War: Volume 2., Stonewall Jackson in Maryland . (search)
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War: Volume 2., The invasion of Maryland . (search)