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


The 1st New Jersey Brigade monument on South Mountain is at Crampton’s Gap next to the War Correspondent’s Memorial Arch. (map) The monument is directly in front of the War Correspondents memorial.

1st New Jersey Brigade monument at Crampton's Gap on the South Mountain battlefield

Text from the monument:

First New Jersey Brigade
1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th Infantry and Hexamer’s Battery
September 14, 1862

Late in the afternoon the Brigade advanced from the fields north and west of Burkittsville, charged up the mountain, carried this point, and followed the enemy to the west foot of the mountain. Loss in the Brigade 40 killed, 134 wounded

The brigade is also honored with a monument at Antietam and another at Gettysburg.

War Correspondents memorial at Crampton's Gap on the South Mountain battlefield

The 1st New Jersey Brigade Monument is almost lost in front of the arch of the imposing War Correspondents monument