Crampton’s Gap Battlefield (Battle of Crampton’s Gap)

Date: September 14th, 1862

Outcome: Draw/Union Tactical

Confederate Casualties: 887

Union Casualties: 533

“Through the streets of Burksville we went, while cannon balls crashed through houses, and the women, the young and old, with great coolness, waved their handkerchiefs and flags at us… we had all the excitement and exhilaration of a fight without its usual bloodshed.”

-Major Thomas Hyde, 7th Maine Infantry