Talk:Battle of South Mountain
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[edit] Names
I changed the 3 gap names to correspond with the USGS GNIS names:
Turners Gap: http://geonames.usgs.gov/pls/gnispublic/f?p=135:3:14712056937451963521::NO::P3_FID:587919 which has several variant names, none of which are Turner's Gap.
Crampton Gap: http://geonames.usgs.gov/pls/gnispublic/f?p=135:3:14712056937451963521::NO::P3_FID:583960 which has the variant name Cramptons Gap (no apostrophe).
Fox Gap: http://geonames.usgs.gov/pls/gnispublic/f?p=135:3:14712056937451963521::NO::P3_FID:588773 which has variant names Foxs Gap and Fox's Gap.
It may be that Civil War era text has them as Turner's, Crampton's, and Fox's, but it still seems better to use the modern standard placenames, no? Pfly 20:16, 14 October 2006 (UTC)
- No. The convention we use is to follow the formats in the secondary sources that we cite as References. In some cases, historians use the more modern, unpunctuated, name, such as Battle of Stones River (which was originally Stone's River), but in this case all of the references cited use the historical names. (Another example of using historical names that deviate from current government usage is Battle of Sayler's Creek.) Hal Jespersen 20:50, 14 October 2006 (UTC)
