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Volume 18, Number 2 Rochester, New York
Two Rochesterians who fought in the Civil War received the Medal of Honor: Warren Carman
captured the Confederate flag and a passel of prisoners; Dr. Richard Curran treated the
wounded in a hail of bullets.
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Company H, 3rd Kentucky Cavalry Regiment
Privates:
Andrew Carman,
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The Battle Of Boonsboro Gap Or South Mountain
By
Judge GEORGE D. GRATTAN, Harrisonburg, Va., Captain and A. A. G. Staff of General
Colquitt.
In a magazine article written by General Hill, in 1886, he says that when he
reached the Gap on the morning of the battle, he found Colquitt's brigade stationed at
the foot of the mountain on the east side, and that he moved it back near the top of the
mountain, and on the map which he gave with his article, he placed Colquitt's brigade
just in front of the Mountain House. In this I am satisfied General Hill's memory is
at fault. He made no such statement in his official report, written but a few days after
the battle of Sharpsburg, and I am sure that I can't be mistaken in the position the
brigade held, and from which position General Hill says "it was not moved an inch
during the whole day." About the first of July, 1899, I received a letter from
General Carman, of the "Antietam Battle Field Board," asking if I could help to
locate the position of General Colquitt's brigade on the battlefield of South
Mountain, of which his board was preparing a map, and stating th!
at they had examined the field after carefully reading all the official reports of the
officers engaged in the fight, and had been unable to fix the ground held by his brigade.
Although I had not visited the field since the battle on the 14th of September, 1862, I
had such a distinct recollection of it that I made a somewhat rude sketch of the ground as
I remembered it, marking the position held by the brigade about half way down the east
side of the mountain on both sides of the Hagerstown pike, as above stated, and sent this
sketch to General Carman with a note of explanation, and in due time I received a letter
from him, which I still have in my possession, in which he says' "Yours of the
7th instant received, and we thank you for the information therein contained. There have
been many changes in the fence lines on the South Mountain field, but your sketch enables
us to locate the one behind which were the 23rd and 28th Georgia."
(The above paragraph is about halfway thru the article."
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