From Manassas to Appomattox: Memoirs of the Civil War in America
CHAPTER XVII.
PRELIMINARIES OF THE GREAT BATTLE.
Confederates retreat from South Mountain--Federals follow and harass them--Franklin and Cobb at Crampton's Pass--A Spirited Action--Fighting around Harper's Ferry--Its Capitulation--The Confederates take Eleven Thousand Prisoners--Jackson rejoins Lee--Description of the Field of Antietam--McClellan posts his Corps--Lee's Lines advantageously placed--Hooker's Advance on the Eve of Battle should have been resisted 227