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Title

Before Antietam : the battle for South Mountain / by John Michael Priest ; foreword by Edwin C. Bearss.

Author

Priest, John M., 1949-

Publication

Shippensburg, PA : White Mane Pub. Co., c1992.

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Description

xviii, 433 p. : ill., maps, ports.; 24 cm.

Summary

• Robert E. Lee, after decisively repelling John Pope's August 1862 invasion of Virginia at the Second Battle of Manassas, took the offensive. Moving north into Maryland, Lee divided his forces to capture Harpers Ferry while continuing his advance further into Union territory. George B. McClellan, the new Union commander, learned that Lee had divided his forces, and advanced to attack the Confederates. The armies, from squad to corps level, fought hard in both cavalry and.
• Infantry actions for control of the three gaps across South Mountain, about sixty miles from the Federal capital. The victory McClellan's officers and men gave him forced Lee to fall back and regroup near the town of Sharpsburg, Maryland, thus setting the stage for the Civil War's bloodiest day which soon followed at Antietam Creek. Three days before that September day, the opposing armies fought a series of engagements that came to be known as the Battle of South.
• Mountain. Until Before Antietam, those battles existed in our history as only a footnote to the events at Antietam. Because of the work of John Michael Priest those terrible encounters now have their rightful place in American military history.

Subject

• 1862
• South Mountain, Battle of, Md., 1862

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

September 5, 1862 -- September 6, 1862 -- September 7, 1862 -- September 8, 1862 -- September 9, 1862 -- September 10, 1862 -- September 11, 1862 -- September 12, 1862 -- September 13, 1862 -- September 14, 1862. Fox's Gap 9:00 a.m. -- Noon -- September 14, 1862. Fox's Gap noon -- 10:00 p.m. -- September 14, 1862 Turner's Gap -- The Battle around Frosttown -- The Battle between the National Pike and the Frosttown Road -- The Battle in the National Pike Gorge -- September 14, 1862. Crampton's Gap -- September 15, 1862. Crampton's Gap -- Fox's Gap -- Turner's Gap -- Boonsboro.

ISBN

0942597370 (alk. paper) :

LCCN

^^^92018927^

OCLC

• 26013845
• SCSB-13379830

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library