Union - Military
Maryland/Virginia
The left wing of McClellan's army under Major GEneral William B. Franklin moves toward Crampton's Gap in an effort to relieve the Harper's Ferry garrison and to cut off the Confederates advancing toward that stronghold.
Franklin "carries the pass" against Confederate forces under Lafayette McLaws, , but believing he was outnumbered, entrenched and did not push on from Pleasant Valley toward Harper's Ferry.
At South Mountain, at Fox Gap and at Turner Gap, Union cavalry under Pleasonton fight with d.H. Hill's Confederates until the two Union corps under Reno and Hooker, from Burnside's right wing, come up.
After severe fighting, the Confederates withdraw late in the evening, both flanks enveloped.
Union Major General Jesse L. Reno is the highest ranking officer killed that day.
Union casualties:
443 killed, 1807 wounded, 75 missing, for a total of 2,325 out of more than 28,000.
Confederate casualties (estimated):
325 killed, 1,560 wounded, 800 missing for a total of 2.685 out of about 18,000 engaged.
These battles are known variously as South Mountain, Boonsborough, Boonsborough Gap, Turner's Gap, Compton's Gap and Compton's Pass.
There is a skirmish near Petersville, Maryland.
Meanehile, Jackson and McLaws besiege Harper's Ferry.
Military - Confederates
Kentucky
In the West, Bragg's forces move on Munfordville. Advance units are repulsed.
There is a skirmish at Henderson, as troops under Union General Don Carlos Buell, marching rapidly north from Tennessee to head off Bragg, reach Bowling Green, Kentucky.
Mississippi
To the south in Mississippi, the third prong of the Confederate offensive is in operatin, with Sterling Price occuping Iuka, near Corinth.
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Bibliography
The Civil War Day By Day: An Almanac 1861-1865. E.B. Long with Barbara Long, De Capo, 1971
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