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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 …
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"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 …
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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…
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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…
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"The people for the most part were tongue-tied with terror...overwhelmed with ruin..."Porte Crayon, war correspondentApril 18, 1861
The armory and arsenal's destruction signaled the beginning of the war and the end of prosperity in Harpers Ferr…
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The Union army refused to give up. Frustrated by the Federals' stronghold on Bolivar Heights, "Stonewall" Jackson ordered cannons to the mountain tops and nearby plateaus. Pounded by a day and a morning of Confederate bombardment, Union soldiers f…
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"Do all you can to annoy the rebels should they advance on you...You will not abandon Harpers Ferry without defending it to the last extremity."Maj. Gen. John G. Wool, USATelegraph message to Col. Dixon S. Miles, USASeptember 7, 1862
The first …
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"The Rebels were all around us and our only refuge was the open canopy of heaven."Sgt. Charles E. Smith32nd Ohio InfantrySeptember 14, 1862
Thousands of Federal soldiers huddled in ravines on Bolivar Heights to escape the Confederate shells of …
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"...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…
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"...the heights became dotted with tents, and at night...the neighboring hills were aglow with hundreds of watchfires..."Joseph Barry, Harpers Ferry residentOctober 1862
After the Battle of Antietam on September 17, 1862, General Lee withdrew h…