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To command them Buchanan ordered Brevet Colonel [72]: xv Robert E. Lee, conveniently on leave at his home, just across the Potomac in Arlington, Virginia, to "repair" to Harpers Ferry, [72] [79] where he arrived about 10 PM, on a special train.
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).
Lee delineated the routes and roads to be taken and the timing for the investment of Harpers Ferry. On September 12th, from Hagerstown, Lee send the original order of the 9th to President Davis. AAG Robert Chilton signed this document Lee's staff officers, with the exception of Charles Venable, denied being involved in the promulgation of the ...
The Robert E. Lee won the race. [191] The steamboat inspired the 1912 song Waiting for the Robert E. Lee by Lewis F. Muir and L. Wolfe Gilbert. [192] In more modern times, the USS Robert E. Lee, a George Washington-class submarine built in 1958, was named for Lee, [193] as was the M3 Lee tank, produced in 1941 and 1942.
At 3:30 in the afternoon of Monday the 17th, Greene and the Marines proceeded to Harpers Ferry via the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, they even brought two 12-pounder Dahlgren guns (though they were left on the train and not used). [1] At 10:00 that evening, they were met by Lieutenant Colonel Robert E. Lee, who was the commander of the expedition ...
General Robert E. Lee, commander of the Army of Northern Virginia. On June 1, 1862, General Robert E. Lee, its final and best known leader historically, took command after Johnston was wounded and Smith suffered what may have been a nervous breakdown at the Battle of Seven Pines. William Whiting received permanent command of Smith's division ...
On the night of October 17, U.S. Marines and then Brevet Colonel Robert E. Lee and his aide J.E.B. Stuart, at the instruction of President Buchanan, arrived in Harpers Ferry to put down Brown's insurrection. The next morning, using a ladder as a battering ram, the Marines broke down the door and stormed the fire engine house.
¶ John Anthony Copeland Jr. was a free black man who joined John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry. He was captured during the raid and was executed [27] 16 December 1859. The book, The "Colored Hero" of Harpers Ferry: John Anthony Copeland and the War against Slavery, was published in 2015. [8] There is a cenotaph memorial in Oberlin, Ohio.