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len near him from a rebel cannon. The key had probably been sent in another direction. The surrender of Harper's Ferry — a review of M'Clellan's generalship. The surrender of Harper's Ferry seems to have been a greater blow to the North than first accounts would have justified us in expecting. The press do not discuss the battles in Maryland, (and for a good reason,) but make the fall of Harper's Ferry the topic. They say that the failure to rise in Maryland was the defeat of Lea and about the only defeat He did sustain: Lee, on his part, seems to have fully appreciated the importance of Harper's Ferry for while was sending couriers for reinforcements, the ordered Jackson to unite with Hill and overwhelming while he stayed the columns of and of Franklin with his best divisions. It turned out this strategy was successful. He and Franklin both to fight on Sunday, the 14th, while poor Miles, who was miles and miles away and pressed by the swarming divisions o