The Daily Dispatch: September 17, 1862., [Electronic resource]

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From our army — reported capture of Harper's Ferry, with eight thousand prisoners.

Information received in this city yesterday, renders it almost certain that the Yankees at Harper's Ferry, in Jefferson county, numbering some eight thousand, have surrendered to our forces under Gen. Jackson. A gentleman who came down on the Central train states that Gen. Jackson crossed the Potomac on Friday afternoon and moved on Martinsburg, and that the Federal force there, some two or three thousand, fell back to Harper's Ferry, where there was a Yankee army of about five thousand. On Saturday morning Gen. Jackson marched down to Halltown, in Jefferson county, four miles west of the Ferry, where he encamped that night. Another division of our army was said to be in possession of the Maryland Heights, opposite Harper's Ferry, while a third division was stated to be marching on the same point from the Loudoun side. The Federal forces were thus completely hemmed in, without chance of escape, and, if the statement be true that our forces had possession of Maryland Heights, with little hope of successful resistance.

From the same source we learn that news was received at Gordonsville yesterday morning, that the Yankees surrendered on Sunday morning with out firing a gun. We think it highly probable that this statement is correct, and if so, it opens up communication between the Valley and our army at Frederick.