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The Gibraltar of America’s Four-Way Civil War
This mountain pass through the Appalachians was the only way to move troops and supplies between Virginia, Kentucky, and Tennessee. Confederates built strong earthworks in 1861 and called it the “Gibraltar of America.”
Union forces captured it in June 1862, lost it again that fall, then took it back for good in September 1863. Each side knew whoever controlled the Gap controlled the region…