Statistics for occurrence #1 of “Harper's Ferry” in chapter 26 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 II.:
...n R. Meigs, my engineer officer, was murdered beyond Harrisonburg near Dayton.
For this atrocious act, all the houses within an area of five miles were burned.
Since I came into the Valley from Harper's Ferry , every train, every small party, and every straggler, has been bushwhacked by the people; many of whom have protection papers from commanders who have been hitherto in that valley.
The people he...
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| † | Harper's Ferry (West Virginia, United States) | 10,974 | 129 | 304 | 1 | 0 user votes | |
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