North Carolina

North Carolinians fought at or near here on September 14, 1862, with the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th, 12th, 13th, 14th, 15th, 20th, 23rd, and 30th Infantry and Manly's and Reilly's Battery of the 1st NC Artillery engaged under General D.H. Hill, while elements of Longstreet's Corps arrived in the afternoon. The fighting at Fox's Gap included one of the few instances of actual hand-to-hand combat in the war. The 13th NC was totally surrounded after Brigadier General Samuel Garland was mortally wounded just a few yards from here. Two days after the battle, fifty-eight Confederate dead were dumped down the well of Daniel Wise to the northwest, and in 1874 they were reinterred in Hagerstown, MD. R.B. Wilson of the 12th Ohio recalled that as the enemy fell back through Wise's garden, they were met in the flank by a line coming up from the rear and a terrific fight followed; he wrote that a Confederate color bearer climbed onto the rear wall of the garden, waved his flag defiantly, refused repeated calls to surrender, was shot, and fell inside the wall, after which Private Hoagland of Wilson's company jumped over the fence and secured the flag, though Lieutenant Colonel Coleman of the 11th later claimed credit for its capture.

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