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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, by Robert Knox Sneden (edited by Durova) African-American Civil War soldiers , author unknown (edited by Durova ) Allan Pinkerton, President Lincoln , and John A. McClernand in 1862 by Alexander Gardner
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Harpers Ferry, West Virginia was the site of several battles. ... Photographic images of dead impacted the home front. ... A dead Confederate soldier in Devil's Den ...
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.
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.
The restored Kennedy Farm House in 2019. The Kennedy Farm is a National Historic Landmark property on Chestnut Grove Road in rural southern Washington County, Maryland.It is notable as the place where the radical abolitionist John Brown planned and began his raid on Harpers Ferry, Virginia (today West Virginia), in 1859.