With the First Corps to Frosttown Gap - September 14, 1862

This slideshow traces part of the path of the Union First Corps as they left Middletown Maryland and approached and fought their way into South Mountain around Frostown. These photos were shot on March 7, 2009. As always, you can slow down the action by double clicking the photos and also see a location where I shot the photo in Google Maps. There has been some discussion lately on the Talk Antietam Yahoo Group on the road network around Turner's Gap. While this may not shed a lot of light on the road network and all the gaps, you get some idea of the nature of this difficult terrain and the challenges faced both by the Union commanders Meade and Hatch and their Confederate counterpart Robert Rodes.