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Boonsboro (Maryland, United States) (search for this): chapter 8.63
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,--
nd in inspiring the victors with such caution that a simple ruse turned them back in their triumphal career.
Every battle-field of the Civil War beheld the deadly conflict of former friends with each other, South Mountain may be taken as a specimen of this unnatural and horrible state of things.
The last time I ever saw Generals McClellan and Reno was in 1848, at the table of General G. W. Smith, in the city of Mexico. Generals Meade and Scammon had both been instructors while I was at West Point. Colonel Magilton, commanding a brigade in Meade's division, had been a lieutenant in my company in the Mexican war. General John Gibbon (whose brigade pressed up the pike on the 14th of September) and his brother Lardner had been best men at my wedding.
They were from North Carolina; one brother took the Northern side, while the other took the Southern.
There is another view of the picture, however.
If we had to be beaten it was better to be beaten by former friends.
Every true sold
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