In Episode 47 of "The Antietam And Beyond Podcast," licensed Gettysburg battlefield guide Jim Hessler, an expert on George Armstrong Custer, joins co-hosts John Banks and Tom McMillan for a freewheeling discussion about "The Boy General" and the Maryland Campaign. He also weighs in on that famous post-Antietam photograph of President Lincoln and George McClellan that purportedly includes Custer. Plus, he dishes on Libbie Custer!
You need to read Hood's Defeat Near Fox's Gap to understand the battle at Fox's and Turner's Gap. The book refutes every author who has ever written about Hood at Fox's Gap. Hood was one half-mile west of where the Reno Monument stands. The greatest discovery on the Fox's Gap battlefield was Capt. Wren's stone fence or wall southwest of the Reno Monument and Moser Road intersecxtion. Ezra Carman was not in the battle and misunderstood the battle.
ReplyDeleteCarman's maps are incorrect. BG J. D. Cox: "He [Hood] also tells of recovering the crest of South Mountain in the battle of the 14th of September 1862, after the Union troops had carried it. It has been abundantly demonstrated that the principal ridge south of the Hagerstown pike was never for a moment in real danger after the 9th Corps had gained it in the morning. A detached hill in front was alternately held by both sides but never occupied in force by Federal troops. It is to this alone he can refer."