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BALTIMORE -- New signage is set to be installed around South Mountain, site of an 1862 Civil War battle and a forerunner to the bloodiest one-day conflict of the war at Antietam. A new logo that ...

Part 11 -- February 1862: 1st battle of the 27th Massachusetts ... He had been killed in September at the Battle of South Mountain. In 2001, a Maine auction house sold the Reno sword for $109,000 ...

One thing missing from this weekend’s re-enactment at Boonsboro of the 1862 Civil War Battle of South Mountain will be the prelude of widespread cavalry skirmishing that accompanied Gen.

This weekend at Boonsboro, about 1,500 Civil War buffs will re-enact the 1862 Battle of South Mountain. Although South Mountain was the first major clash of the Civil War on Maryland soil ...

One of the less discussed aspects of the campaign has been the fighting at South Mountain, fought three days before America’s bloodiest day. Unholy Sabbath is a detailed examination of this battle.

From there we continued to Turner’s Gap, where the Battle of South Mountain continued the afternoon of Sept. 14, 1862. Some of the battlefield is preserved in the form of state parks ...