Statistics for occurrence #1 of “Harper's Ferry” in chapter 30 of Horace Greeley, The American Conflict: A History of the Great Rebellion in the United States of America, 1860-65: its Causes, Incidents, and Results: Intended to exhibit especially its moral and political phases with the drift and progress of American opinion respecting human slavery from 1776 to the close of the War for the Union. Volume I.:
...he vote of the Convention to secede, and while that vote was still covered by an injunction of secrecy, they had set on foot expeditions for the capture of the Federal Arsenal, arms and munitions, at Harper's Ferry , as also for that of the Norfolk Navy Yard.
So early as the night of the 16th, the channel of Elizabeth River, leading up from Hampton Roads to Norfolk, was partially obstructed in their interest b...
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| † | Harper's Ferry (West Virginia, United States) | 10,974 | 112 | 304 | 0 | 0 user votes | |
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