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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. ... Photographic images of dead impacted the home front.
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.
On October 15, 1861, Union Major General Nathaniel P. Banks ordered Colonel John White Geary to cross the Potomac River from Maryland Heights, part of Elk Ridge (Maryland) and capture wheat stored by the Confederate States Army near Bolivar Heights. [1] Geary crossed the river with 600 men but sent 500 of them back that night. [1]
Bullis was wounded and captured at the Battle of Harpers Ferry (September 12–15, 1862). [2] During the Battle of Gettysburg (July 1–3, 1863), he was wounded and captured again. [ 3 ] He then was imprisoned for 10 months at the brutal Libby Prison in Virginia until he was exchanged for a Confederate soldier in the spring of 1864.
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