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On September 14, 1862, the Sixth Army Corps under Major General W. B. Franklin, consisting of two divisions commanded by Major Generals H. W. Slocum and W. F. Smith, and joined by Couch’s Division of the Fourth Corps, formed the left of the Army of the Potomac’s advancing line through Maryland. After moving through Tennallytown, Darnestown, Poolesville, and Barnesville, it reached Buckeystown, west of the Monocacy, on the evening of September 13. Ordered to force Crampton’s Pass and seize Rohrersville in order to cut off McLaws from the main body of the Army of Northern Virginia and relieve Harpers Ferry, the corps moved early on September 14, passed through Jefferson, and reached the outskirts of Burkittsville at noon. At 3 p.m., Slocum and Smith advanced, drove Munford’s cavalry and Mahone’s infantry from the foot of the mountain and through the pass, and overthrew Cobb’s brigade nearby, taking many prisoners. The infantry brigades retreated to Brownsville and the cavalry to Rohrersville, while Semmes’ Brigade abandoned Brownsville Pass and joined Cobb and Mahone. The corps advanced into Pleasant Valley on the evening of September 14 and remained there until the morning of September 17, when it marched for the field of Antietam.
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