Overlooking Boonsboro

This view overlooks the Town of Boonsboro from above Turner's Gap. During the Battle of South Mountain, General John Gibbon's westerners from Indiana and Wisconsin of the named "Iron Brigade" hit the Confederate right while General George G. Meade's Pennsylvania Reserves struck the left. These actions finally allowed Union forces to break through the line around Turner's Gap but darkness prevented its capture. Other Ninth Corps units had tried to assist Hooker's force but ran into their own stiff resistance around Fox's Gap.