Battle of South Mountain • Turner’s Gap • Fox’s Gap • Crampton’s Gap
The monument to Confederate Brigadier General Samuel Garland is on Reno Monument Road at the crest of Fox’s Gap on the South Mountain battlefield in Maryland. (map) The monument was placed on September 11, 1993, by members of the Garland-Rhodes Camp 409, Sons of Confederate Veterans.
Monument to Confederate General Samuel Garland. The trail into the woods to the North Carolina monument can be seen in the background.
From the monument:
Near here in
Wise’s Field on the
morning of Sept. 14, 1862,
Brigadier General
Samuel Garland, Jr. C.S.A.
of Lynchburg, Virginia
fell mortally wounded
while leading his men.
Erected by
Garland-Rodes Camp 109
S.C.V.
Samuel Garland was a lawyer and Virginia Military Institute graduate from Lynchburg, Virginia. See more on the life of Samuel Garland.