This Ryker case (6.25” x 5.25”) holds relics from a Confederate assault on Solomon’s Gap located at Brownsville Pass in the South Mountains. Included are eight .58 caliber minie balls (one smashed flat from hitting a rock), two pistol bullets, a small iron buckle, a canteen strap bracket, and a pocket knife blade. Found by author/publisher Dean Thomas.

In September 1862, during the Antietam Campaign, General McLaws and 8,000 Confederates marched into Pleasant Valley to help surround and attack Harpers Ferry from the north. Upon encountering Union soldiers defending Maryland Heights, McLaws directed General Joseph B. Kershaw's South Carolina Brigade and General William Barksdale's Mississippi Brigade to ascend Elk Ridge at Solomon's Gap. The Confederates met stiff resistance, but eventually the Federals withdrew into Harpers Ferry. On September 15, they capitulated to Jackson in the largest surrender of U.S. troops during the war.  [jet][ph:jet]

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