. Battles and leaders of the Civil War : being for the most part contributions by Union and Confederate officers . sion of our corps went as his support. Throughsome misunderstanding, Rodman did not advance on the Hagerstown l-oadbeyond Catoctin Mountain, but moved toward Franklins line of march uponCramptons Cap (southward). About noon of the 13th, I was ordered tomarch with my division to Middletown, on the National road leading toHagerstown. McClellan himself met me as my column moved out of town,and told me of the misunderstanding in Rodmans orders, adding, that if Imet him on the march I
. Battles and leaders of the Civil War : being for the most part contributions by Union and Confederate officers . sion of our corps went as his support. Throughsome misunderstanding, Rodman did not advance on the Hagerstown l-oadbeyond Catoctin Mountain, but moved toward Franklins line of march uponCramptons Cap (southward). About noon of the 13th, I was ordered tomarch with my division to Middletown, on the National road leading toHagerstown. McClellan himself met me as my column moved out of town,and told me of the misunderstanding in Rodmans orders, adding, that if Imet him on the march I should take his division also along with me. I didnot meet him, but his division returned to Frederick that night. The othertwo divisions of our corps crossed the Catoctin in the evening, and campednear the western base of the mountain. My own camp for the night waspitched on the western side of the village of Middletown. The Catoctin or Middletown valley is beautifully included between CatoctinMountain and South Mountain, two ranges of the Blue Ridge, running north- FORCING FOXS GAP AND TURNERS GAP. 585 Wife. Vc MAJOR-GENERAL JESSE L. RENO, KILLED ATFOXS GAP. FROM A PHOTOGRAPH. east and south-west. The valley is 6 or8 miles wide, and the National road, asit goes north-westward, crosses SouthMountain at a depression called Tur-ners Gap. The old Skarpsburg roadleaves the turnpike a little west of Mid-dletown, turns to the left, and crossesthe mountain at Foxs Gap, about amile from Turners. The mountaincrests are about 1300 feet above theCatoctin valley, and the gaps arefrom 200 to 300 feet lower than thesummits near them. % These summitsare like scattered and somewhat irreg-ular hills upon the high rounded sur-face of the mountain-top. They arewooded, but along the south-easterlyslopes, quite near the top of the moun-tain, are small farms with meadowsand cultivated fields. In the evening of the 13th I was or-dered to support General Pleasonton inhis cavalry reconnoissance to be
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