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On This Day in Confederate History, Sept. 14.

1862: The Battle of South Moutain in the Sharpsburg/Antietam Campaign. The battle tool place at Crampton's, Turner's, and Fox's gaps as Gen. Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia tried to prevent Maj. Gen. George McClellan's Army of the Potomac from getting through the mountain gaps to catch Lee's army while it is divided. The Federals found Crampton's Gap thinly held by the Confederates and seize it. At Turner's Gap and Fox's Gap Confederate Maj. Gen. D.H. Hill had 5,000 men who put up a stout defense and battled the Federals to a standstill by nightfall. Lee decided to withdraw that night so his army can concentrate. The Federals lost 433 men killed, 1,807 wounded, and 75 missing. The Confederate losses included 325 killed, 1,560 wounded, and 800 missing.

 

Sgt. Robert M. Jones, Co. C, 3rd Ala.

Inf. Reg.'t. Wounded in the foot at

South Mountain and captured. He was

paroled at Ft. McHenry, Md. Sgt. Jones 

was the assigned to the clothing depot

at Richmond, Va. in Sept. 1863. He died

on Sept. 15, 1864 at Mobile, Ala.

(Liljenquist Collection/Library of Congress)

 

 

The Battle of South Mountain, Maryland

On the third day of the Siege of Harper's Ferry, Lt. Gen. Thomas J. Jackson had the Federals in Harper's Ferry surrounded but the Yankees continued to hold out. However Federal cavalry managed to capture 40 wagons containing Longstreet's reserve ammunition.

Confederate General Birthdays, Sept. 14.

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