{"id":229,"date":"2010-08-17T11:10:25","date_gmt":"2010-08-17T15:10:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/cwblog\/?p=229"},"modified":"2010-08-17T11:10:25","modified_gmt":"2010-08-17T15:10:25","slug":"battle-of-sporting-hill-june-30-1863","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/cwblog\/2010\/08\/17\/battle-of-sporting-hill-june-30-1863\/","title":{"rendered":"Battle of Sporting Hill &#8211; June 30, 1863"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/hd.housedivided.dickinson.edu\/node\/5976\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-230\" title=\"Albert Gallatin Jenkins\" src=\"http:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/cwblog\/files\/2010\/08\/HD_jenkinsAG1-250x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"270\" srcset=\"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/cwblog\/files\/2010\/08\/HD_jenkinsAG1-250x300.jpg 250w, https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/cwblog\/files\/2010\/08\/HD_jenkinsAG1.jpg 485w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Battle of Sporting Hill, which was part of the Gettysburg Campaign, took place on June 30, 1863 in <a href=\"http:\/\/hd.housedivided.dickinson.edu\/node\/33375\" target=\"_blank\">Camp Hill<\/a>, Pennsylvania between elements of the 16th Virginia Calvary Regiment and two New York Militia Regiments. The Confederate forces at Sporting Hill served as a rearguard for General <a href=\"http:\/\/hd.housedivided.dickinson.edu\/node\/5976\" target=\"_blank\">Albert G. Jenkins<\/a>, whose brigade was stationed several miles away in <a href=\"http:\/\/hd.housedivided.dickinson.edu\/node\/9260\" target=\"_blank\">Mechanicsburg<\/a>. Early on June 30, however, Jenkins moved out after he received General <a href=\"http:\/\/hd.housedivided.dickinson.edu\/node\/6078\" target=\"_blank\">Robert E. Lee\u2019s<\/a> order to regroup at Gettysburg. The 22nd and 37th New York Militia Regiments, which were under the overall command of General <a href=\"http:\/\/hd.housedivided.dickinson.edu\/node\/11988\" target=\"_blank\">Darius N. Couch<\/a>, were out on reconnaissance when they engaged Jenkins\u2019 rearguard. (Union General <a href=\"http:\/\/hd.housedivided.dickinson.edu\/node\/17310\" target=\"_blank\">William F. Smith<\/a> had ordered a patrol once he realized that Confederates were withdrawing from the area). As John Lockwood <a href=\"http:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=TdA_AAAAYAAJ&amp;dq=%22Sporting%20Hill%22%20%221863%22&amp;pg=PA167#v=onepage&amp;q&amp;f=true\" target=\"_blank\">recalled<\/a>, the two New York regiments were:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">\u201cordered out to reconnoiter. Expecting to return in course of the day left everything behind except arms and ammunition and thus passed through rest of campaign! They moved along the Carlisle road to \u2018Sporting Hill\u2019 where had a skirmish.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Union forces forced Confederates to withdraw after they brought in a detachment from Landis\u2019 Philadelphia Battery of Light Artillery, but they were unable to pursue them. Reports indicated that approximately sixteen soldiers died during the engagement. A historical marker is located at the intersection of 31st Street and Market Streets in Camp Hill.\u00a0You can read more about this battle in an essay on <a href=\"http:\/\/explorepahistory.com\/hmarker.php?markerId=714\" target=\"_blank\">ExplorePAhistory.com<\/a>, Robert Grant Crist\u2019s article \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/dpubs.libraries.psu.edu\/DPubS?service=UI&amp;version=1.0&amp;verb=Display&amp;handle=psu.ph\/1141403362\" target=\"_blank\">Highwater 1863: The Confederate Approach to Harrisburg<\/a>\u201d (<em>Pennsylvania History<\/em> 1963), and in Wilbur Sturtevant Nye\u2019s <em>Here Come The Rebels!<\/em> (1965).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Battle of Sporting Hill, which was part of the Gettysburg Campaign, took place on June 30, 1863 in Camp Hill, Pennsylvania between elements of the 16th Virginia Calvary Regiment and two New York Militia Regiments. The Confederate forces at Sporting Hill served as a rearguard for General Albert G. 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