The Battle of South Mountain

November 1, 2011 By admin

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Confederate General J.E.B. Stuart's soldiers burning the bridge across Catoctin Creek, and the property of Adam Koogle, on the National Road west of Middletown (Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, October 4, 1862; F.H. Schell, artist; courtesy of Princeton University Library)

The bridge over Catoctin Creek and Adam Koogle's barn and blacksmith's shop burned by Confederate soldiers as they left Middletown towards South Mountain (Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, October 4, 1862; Edwin Forbes, artist; courtesy of Princeton University Library)

Union soldiers marching through Middletown (Harper's Weekly, October 25, 1862; A.R. Waud, artist; NPS History Collection)

View from the National Road as Union artillery fires on Confederate positions on South Mountain (Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, October 4, 1862; F.H. Schell, artist; courtesy of Princeton University Library)

Federal cavalry skirmishers advance on Confederates in one of the South Mountain passes, September 14, 1862 (Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, October 4, 1862; F.H. Schell, artist; courtesy of Princeton University Library)

Union troops charge the Confederate lines on South Mountain (Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, October 4, 1862; F.H. Schell, artist; Florida Center for Instructional Technology, http://etc.usf.edu/clipart)

Crampton's Gap in the Battle of South Mountain (original uncolorized version from Harper's Weekly, October 25, 1862; A.R. Waud, artist; NPS History Collection)

Charge of the Sixth Corps of the Union Army from Burkittsville toward Crampton's Gap (George T. Stevens, Three Years in the Sixth Corps [Albany, NY: S.R. Gray, 1866], 136)

Fighting at Crampton's Gap during the Battle of South Mountain, September 14, 1862 (Harper's Weekly, October 25, 1862; A.R. Waud, artist; NPS History Collection)

The battle on South Mountain, at Turner's Gap, as seen from Boonsboro in Washington County (Harper's Weekly, October 25, 1862; A.R. Waud, artist; NPS History Collection)

"The Battle of South Mountain, MD. Sunday, Sept. 14, 1862.," published in 1864 (Library of Congress)

A detail of "The Battle of South Mountain, MD. Sunday, Sept. 14, 1862," showing the wounded Lt. Col. Rutherford B. Hays of the 23rd Ohio Regiment, and future president of the United States (Library of Congress)

Federal artillery being fired upon at the Battle of South Mountain (Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, December 20, 1862; courtesy of Princeton University Library)

Union forces driving the Confederates from the South Mountain ridge north of Turner's Gap (The New York Illustrated News, October 4, 1862; A. Lumley, artist; courtesy of Princeton University Library)

Rebel prisoners being escorted into Frederick on September 16, 1862, after the Battle of South Mountain (The New York Illustrated News, October 11, 1862; A. Lumley, artist; courtesy of Princeton University Library)

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Catoctin Center for Regional Studies
Frederick Community College

7932 Opossumtown Pike
Frederick, MD 21702

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Maryland and the Border
in the Civil War

The Battle of South Mountain

Special Collections

Maryland and the Border in the Civil War

The Battle of South Mountain

Special Collections

Maryland and the Border
in the Civil War