Fight at Monterey Pass

Fight at Monterey Pass (Gap)
	Part of the American Civil War
	; Retreat from the Battle of Gettysburg
Date	July 4–5, 1863
Location	Monterey Pass, Franklin County, Pennsylvania
Result	Union victory
Belligerents
USA (Union)	CSA (Confederacy)
Commanders and leaders
Judson Kilpatrick	William E. "Grumble" Jones; Beverly H. Robertson
Strength
4,500	wagon train, cavalry escort
Casualties and losses
43 (5 killed, 10 wounded, 28 missing)	1,300 captured

The Fight at Monterey Pass (or Gap)^[3] was an American Civil War military engagement beginning the evening of July 4, 1863, during the Retreat from Gettysburg. A Confederate wagon train of Lt. Gen. Richard S. Ewell's Second Corps, Army of Northern Virginia, withdrew after the Battle of Gettysburg, and Union cavalry under Brig. Gen. H. Judson Kilpatrick attacked the retreating Confederate column. After a lengthy delay in which a small detachment of Maryland cavalrymen delayed Kilpatrick's division, the Union cavalrymen captured numerous Confederate prisoners and destroyed hundreds of wagons.

^ Brown, p. 128; Huntington, p. 132.
^ Brown, p. 143.
^ Huntington, pp. 131-33; Wittenberg et al., 49-74; Sears, pp. 480-81; Brown, pp. 128-36, 184; Coddington, p. 548; Gottfried, pp. 278-81; Longacre, pp. 249-50. A historical marker on East Cemetery Hill at Gettysburg Battlefield uses the term "Fight" for the "Monterey Gap" action, Longacre uses "skirmish". All of the other references use the name "Monterey Pass".