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The Battle of Harpers Ferry was fought September 12–15, 1862, as part of the Maryland Campaign of the American Civil War.As Confederate Army General Robert E. Lee's Confederate army invaded Maryland, a portion of his army under Major General Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson surrounded, bombarded, and captured the Union garrison at Harpers Ferry, Virginia (now West Virginia).
Battle of Harpers Ferry. Harpers Ferry, West Virginia was the site of several battles. ... A dead Confederate soldier in Devil's Den at Gettysburg.
Cannons from the Battle of Harpers Ferry on Bolivar Heights. The Bolivar Heights Battlefield in Jefferson County, West Virginia, partly in the town of Bolivar, is an American Civil War battlefield which, – because of its strategic position overlooking Harpers Ferry, where the U.S. had an armory, and its placement at the head of the Shenandoah Valley – was the site of five separate ...
View from the Split Rock overlook. The Appalachian Trail (AT) traverses the peak before descending its northwestern slope to the Shenandoah River and Harpers Ferry. A spur trail called the Loudoun Heights Trail (the original route of the AT) leads off the AT down the northern slope, passing by Civil War earthworks and providing good views of the confluence of the Potomac and Shenandoah as well ...
Left Ohio for Alexandria, Va., April 21, 1864. Campaign from the Rapidan to the James River, Va., May 3-June 15, 1864. Battles of the Wilderness May 5–7. [1] Spotsylvania May 8–12. Ny River May 10. Spotsylvania Court House May 12–21. [1] Assault on the Salient May 12. [1] North Anna River May 23–26. Ox Ford May 23–24.
The Battle of Harpers Ferry, September 12–15, 1862; General Robert E. Lee's Gettysburg Campaign of 1863. The Second Battle of Winchester, June 13–15, 1863; General Early's Valley Campaign and Washington, D.C. Raid of 1864. The Battle of Snicker's Ferry, July 17–18, 1864; The Battle of Rutherford's Farm, July 20, 1864
In turn, Ashby exaggerated the Union dead, stating that his men had killed 25 Union soldiers. [2] Ashby reported that he lost one dead and nine wounded. [3] Geary reported his losses at four dead, seven wounded and two taken prisoner. [3] Geary himself was one of the wounded, having been cut to the bone below the knee by a shell fragment. [4]
Dixon Stansbury Miles (May 4, 1804 – September 16, 1862) was a career United States Army officer who served in the Mexican–American War and the Indian Wars.He was mortally wounded as he surrendered his Union garrison in the Battle of Harpers Ferry during the American Civil War.