Talk:Battle of South Mountain

Names
I changed the 3 gap names to correspond with the USGS GNIS names:

Turners Gap: which has several variant names, none of which are Turner's Gap.

Crampton Gap: which has the variant name Cramptons Gap (no apostrophe).

Fox Gap: which has variant names Foxs Gap and Fox's Gap.

It may be that Civil War era text has them as Turner's, Crampton's, and Fox's, but it still seems better to use the modern standard placenames, no? Pfly 20:16, 14 October 2006 (UTC)


 * No. The convention we use is to follow the formats in the secondary sources that we cite as References. In some cases, historians use the more modern, unpunctuated, name, such as Battle of Stones River (which was originally Stone's River), but in this case all of the references cited use the historical names. (Another example of using historical names that deviate from current government usage is Battle of Sayler's Creek.) Hal Jespersen 20:50, 14 October 2006 (UTC)

Comment
Embedded comment moved from the article itself (by Hal Jespersen (talk) 20:55, 18 February 2008 (UTC)): Lee did not learn that order 191 had been lost or recovered by McClellan until after the war. Lee was merely reacting to McClellan's sudden (and unexpected) aggressive movement toward the passes.


 * I find that hard to believe. The lost copy of Special Orders 191 was intended for D.H. Hill.  Surely, there would be immediate evidence during the Maryland campaign to prove that D.H. Hill not see the orders.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by RebelRouser1862 (talk • contribs) 06:56, 22 October 2008 (UTC)

The order was duplicated by Jackson and sent separately. One of the two copies was lost, the other reaching Hill. Hal Jespersen (talk) 15:13, 22 October 2008 (UTC)

Additional Secondary Source
I would recommend using "Before Antietam" by John Michael Priest as your definitive secondary source. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.168.53.81 (talk) 21:37, 20 July 2010 (UTC)


 * As you can see, this is currently a relatively short article that is mostly using generic military history texts for sources. If you would like to expand the article using your recommended text, you are invited to do so. Hal Jespersen (talk) 23:28, 20 July 2010 (UTC)

V Corps
Did the 22nd Regiment Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry and the V Corps (Union Army) fought in this battle? The gravestone of a soldier who was part of the 22nd which was then part of the V Corps claims he fought at the Battle of South Mountain but can this be possible?--KAVEBEAR (talk) 03:59, 27 August 2015 (UTC)

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