BG Jacob Dolson Cox denies Hood's Two Brigades
were near Miller's Field and the Wise Cabin


“He [Hood] tells also of recovering the crest of South Mountain in the battle of
14th September 1862, after the Union troops had carried it. It has been abundantly
demonstrated that the principal ridge south of the Hagerstown pike was never for
a moment in real danger after the 9th Corps had gained it in the morning. A detached
hill in front was alternately held by both sides but never occupied in force by Federal
troops. It is to this alone he can refer."