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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).
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 ...
Miles' Command, Harpers Ferry, Virginia, September 1862. The regiment served duty at Franklin May 25, 1862. Participated in the pursuit of Jackson up the Shenandoah Valley June. Mt. Carmel Road, near Strasburg, June 1. Strasburg and Staunton Road June 1–2. Harrisonburg June 6. Battle of Cross Keys June 9.
Battle of Harpers Ferry. Harpers Ferry, West Virginia was the site of several battles. ... A dead Confederate soldier in Devil's Den at Gettysburg.
Battle of the Wilderness, Virginia, May 5–7, 1864. Battles of Spotsylvania Court House, Laurel Hill, Ny River and Fredericksburg Road, Virginia, May 8–21, 1864. Assault of the Salient, Spotsylvania Court House, Virginia, May 12, 1864. Operations on the line of the North Anna River, Virginia, May 22–26, 1864.
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 ...
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]