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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
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 ...
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.
In a traditional service offered to Civil War veterans, the historical 4th US Infantry Regiment dressed in Union uniforms fired musket volleys and the crowd sang “The Battle Hymn of the Republic.”
On the way to the Ferry James English, a member of Company D, was wounded in the hand, by the accidental discharge of a musket, necessitating amputation at the wrist; he was the first man wounded in the regiment. On arriving at, or near Harper's Ferry, the regiment was encamped on Bolivar Heights, in the rear of the village. From this point it ...
A Politician Goes to War:The Civil War Letters of John White Geary. Archived 2016-01-28 at the Wayback Machine University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University, 1995. ISBN 978-0-271-01338-1. Dufour, Charles L. Nine Men in Gray Archived 2016-01-28 at the Wayback Machine Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, 1993. ISBN 978-0-8032-6596-7.
An illustration of the Confederate militia mustering in Winchester, Virginia, from Harper's Weekly in 1861. The city of Winchester, Virginia, and the surrounding area, were the site of numerous battles during the American Civil War, as contending armies strove to control the lower Shenandoah Valley.