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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM3EF_sheridan-fortifications_Harpers-Ferry-WV.html
In August 1864, Gen. U.S. Grant ordered Gen. Phillip Sheridan to construct earth fortifications on Bolivar Heights. These forts faced northwest to protect against Confederate movements down the Shenandoah Valley to Harpers Ferry. This Sheridan tre…
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On Sept. 13, 1862 Stonewall Jackson's forces approaching from the west were shelled by 2 Union artillery guns under Col. Miles from this position. On Sept. 14, Gen. A.P. Hill outflanked these Union troops while Jackson swept past this location. Co…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM32C_from-skirmish-line-to-burial-ground_Harpers-Ferry-WV.html
Some of the Union infantrymen who defended this ground on the night of September 14th returned the next day. Even though the Confederate strategy had won the battle for Harpers Ferry, and these Union soldiers were part of the largest surrender of …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM32B_a-dangerous-position_Harpers-Ferry-WV.html
On the dark, moonless night of September 14, 1862, 100 men from the 126th New York Regiment established a skirmish line here. These men were new to the war, having only been in uniform for a few short weeks. After surviving a terrifying afternoon …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM32A_we-began-firing-at-will-the-111th-new-york-regiment_Harpers-Ferry-WV.html
"We went below and formed in line of battle and laid down on our arms. Sleep was out of the question but of course, human nature will succumb and drowsiness was general among the boys. It must have been nine O'Clock or more by this time. All of a …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM329_a-position-strong-by-nature_Harpers-Ferry-WV.html
In 1862 Union Colonel Dixon Miles thought that the ridge in front of you, Bolivar Heights, was the perfect place to defend Harpers Ferry. However, in September of '62, Colonel Miles and 14,000 Union soldiers found themselves surrounded by 24,000 C…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM328_the-first-line-of-defense-the-union-skirmish-line_Harpers-Ferry-WV.html
After sunset on September 14, 1862, the Confederate cannons across the road on School House Ridge vanished in the darkness. The features of the landscape began to blur as the shell-shocked Union soldiers on Bolivar Heights wondered if they could s…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM31L_protecting-the-supply-lines_Harpers-Ferry-WV.html
"...make all the valleys south of the Baltimore and Ohio [rail]road a desert as high up as possible...so that crows flying over it [Virginia] for the balance of the season will have to carry their provisions with them."Lt. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant, U…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM314_battle-of-harpers-ferry_Harpers-Ferry-WV.html
(Upper panel): Battle of Harpers FerryInvasion rocked the United States during the second year of the American Civil War. In September 1862 Confederate General Robert E. Lee launched his army into Maryland - the North. Lee's first target became Ha…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2CY_john-brown-fort_Harpers-Ferry-WV.html
Here is a building with a curious past. Since its construction in 1848, it has been vandalized, dismantled, and moved four times - all because of its fame as John Brown's stronghold.
The Fort's "Movements"
1848 Built as fire-engine house fo…