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THE BATTLE OF SOUTH MOUNTAIN, OR BOONSBORO’.

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VIEW FROM TURNER’S GAP, LOOKING- SOUTH-EAST [SEE MAP, I\ 568]. FROM A PHOTOGRAPH TAKEN IN 1886.

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Tlic point of view is a little to the left of the Mount- farther down the road in the hollow. The white patchaio House, now the home of Mrs. Dulilgron, widow of on the mountain to the south (on the right) is Wise’sAdmiral Dahlgren. Rodes was first posted on the hill, field at Fox’s Gap, where Reno and Garland werethe slope of which is seen on the left; Gibbon was killed.— Editors.

turned on its right flank, he sent the 6th to its assistance. There were onlya few skirmishers on his right, hut the Lost Dispatch made him believe oth-erwise. About 9 p. m. the stone-wall was reached, and several gallant effortswere made in vain to carry it. When each repulse was followed by the“ rebel ” yells, the young men on my staff would cry out: “ Hurrah forGeorgia! Georgia is having a free fight.” The Western men had met inthe 23d and 28th Georgia regiments men as brave as themselves and farmore advantageously posted. Colonel Bragg, of the 6th Wisconsin , saysin his report: “We sat down in the dark to wait another attack, but theenemy was no more seen.” At midnight Gorman’s brigade of Sumner’s corpsrelieved Gibbon’s.

General Gibbon reports officially 318 men killed and wounded—a loss sus-tained almost entirely, I think, at the stone-wall. The colonel of the 7thWisconsin reports a loss of 147 men in killed and wounded out of 375 mus-kets carried into action. This shows that he had brave men and that heencountered brave men. From his report we infer that Gibbon had fifteen