Hoods Defeat Near Foxs Gap: Prelude to Emancipation - Curtis L Older

Curtis L Older

Category: History

Narrator: Gabriel Vaughan

Tags: History, Military

An entirely new analysis of the battle for Foxs Gap during the battle for South Mountain., Hoods 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 Hoods 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 Hoods movement. Before the publication of Hoods Defeat Near Foxs Gap , the battle for Foxs Gap and South Mountain was never accurately reported or understood.