What is Battle of Shepherdstown?
{{Infobox military conflict | conflict = Battle of Shepherdstown | partof = the [[American Civil War]] | image = Battle of Shepherdstown.png | caption = ''Ford near Shepherdstown, on the Potomac. Pickets firing across the river.''<br>[[Alfred R. Waud]], artist, Sept. 1862. | date = {{Start date|1862|9|19}}&ndash;{{End date|1862|9|20}} | place = [[Jefferson County, West Virginia]] | result = [[Confederate States of America|Confederate]] victory | combatant1 = {{flagicon|USA|1861}} [[United States]] ([[Union (American Civil War)|Union]]) | combatant2 = {{flagicon|CSA|1861}} [[Confederate States of America|CSA (Confederacy)]] | commander1 = [[Fitz John Porter]] | commander2 = [[William N. Pendleton]] | units1 = [[V Corps (Union Army)|V Corps]] | units2 = Artillery Reserve, [[A. P. Hill's Light Division]] | strength1 = 2 divisions<ref>Terry L. Jones, ''Historical Dictionary of the Civil War'' (Lanham MD; London: The Scarecrow Press, 2002), p. 1271</ref> | strength2 = 2 divisions | casualties1 = 366 (73 killed, 163 wounded, 132 captured/missing)<ref name=NoyalasEV>{{cite web |url=http://www.encyclopediavirginia.org/Shepherdstown_Battle_of#start_entry|title=Battle of Shepherdstown|author=Jonathan A. Noyalas|website=Encyclopedia Virginia|publisher=Virginia Foundation for the Humanities|access-date=9 July 2016}}</ref> | casualties2 = 307 (36 killed, 267 wounded, 6 captured/missing)<ref name=NoyalasEV/> | campaignbox = }} The '''Battle of Shepherdstown''' (also known as the '''Battle of Boteler's Ford''') was fought on September 19 and 20, 1862.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.civilwar.org/battlefields/shepherdstown.html?referrer=https://www.google.com/|title=Battle of Shepherdstown; Boteler's Ford|publisher=Civil War Trust|access-date=9 July 2016}}</ref> It was the last of four battles that made up the [[Maryland Campaign]] of the [[American Civil War]]. == Background == In early September of 1862, [[General officer|General]] [[Robert E. Lee]]'s Maryland Campaign sa