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Battle of South Mountain • Turner’s Gap • Fox’s Gap • Crampton’s Gap

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The Confederate Retreat historical marker is just under one mile west of the summit of Crampton’s Gap on the south side of Gapland Road on the South Mountain battlefield.

Confederate Retreat

Driven from Crampton’s Gap on Sept.
14, 1862, by Gen. Franklin’s Sixth Corps
elements of McLaws’ Confederates
formed across Pleasant Valley to
bar Union advance on Maryland
Heights and Harpers Ferry. Later
these Confederates joined Lee
about Sharpsburg.

Maryland Civil War Centennial Commission