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Battle of South Mountain
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Battle of South Mountain
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
. Three
pitched battles
were fought for possession of three
South Mountain
passes:
Crampton's
,
Turner's
, and
Fox's Gaps
.
Maj. Gen.
George B. McClellan
, commanding the
Union
Army of the Potomac
, needed to pass through these gaps in his pursuit of
Confederate
General
Robert E. Lee
's precariously divided
Army of Northern Virginia
. Although the delay bought at South Mountain would allow him to reunite his army and forestall
defeat in detail
, Lee considered termination of the
Maryland Campaign
at nightfall.
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