The Battle of South Mountain was a series of engagements that took place just before the Union's costly victory at Antietam to the west a few days later. It's a nice little park but maybe not the best example of a walking battlefield. (Try Antietam!) It also overlaps with the Appalachian Trail.
Another cool feature is the bottle-shaped monument to George Washington built 20 years after his death. Throughout the Civil War, or at least the bits in Maryland, this hill and monument was taken and retaken by both sides as a rather obvious and perfect surveillance point. And hey, rainbow!
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