Hood's Defeat Near Fox's Gap: Prelude to Emancipation [Hardcover]

[An] important new comprehensive work that should be read by serious history buffs of the Maryland Campaign. Older makes extensive use of primary sources, bringing readers eyewitness accounts from many soldiers from both armies, and an impressive number of maps, which support his argument that many authors have not always understood the landscape features of the battlefield at the time of the fighting.  The NYMAS ReviewHoods Defeat Near Foxs Gap is an exceptional analysis of Confederate Brigadier General John Bell Hoods troop movements during the battle of South Mountain. For the past 160 years, all other authors misplaced Hoods troop positions on the Foxs Gap battlefield by approximately a half-mile. The actual location of Hood's attack reconfigures the entire placement of the competing forces in the battle and, thus, the conclusions one makes about the struggle. Other authors did not correctly analyze the geography and topography of the battlefield. The failure to understand the topographical characteristics of the battlefield led other writers to make false assumptions about Hood's movement. Before the publication of Hoods Defeat Near Foxs Gap, the battle for Foxs Gap and South Mountain was never accurately reported or understood.A brand-new analysis of the Confederate defeat at Foxs Gap, part of the battle of South Mountain.An entirely new analysis of the battle for Foxs Gap during the battle for South Mountain.Geographical and topographical evidence demonstrate that all previous accounts of Hoods attack on the Union defenses place Hood in the wrong position.Author proves that Confederate casualties at the battle have consistently been understated.Overturns all previous accounts of the Union strategy at the battle.The bitter fights for the vital gaps in South Mountain during the Maryland Campaign are largely overshadowed by the subsequent battle of Antietam, the bloodiest single day in American military history. Underreported and often misunderstol£)