The Battle of Harpers Ferry (west Virginia): After four days of fighting, compulsory Union Colonel Dixon S. Miles, surrenders the federal arsenal at Harper’s Ferry to Lieutenant General Thomas J. “Stonewall” Jackson. commanding the Second Corps Confederate (a voluntary union) of the Army of Northern Virginia.
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References:
Bruce Catton, The Civil War, (New York: American Heritage, 1960; Boston: Houghton-Mifflin, 1987), 291.
Calvin D. Linton, ed., The Bicentennial Almanac: 200 Years of America, 1776-1976, (Nashville, Tennessee: Thomas Nelson, 1975), 171.
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