James Longstreet’s wing would continue west into Maryland, while a division under D. Lee issued Special Order 191, an audacious plan that involved splitting his army. On September 9, while encamped near Frederick, Gen. “Stonewall '' Jackson to capture the garrison. Fearing this Union force could hamper with his communication and supply lines, Lee decided to send Gen. Once he moved into Maryland, his plans were disrupted when the 13,000-man garrison at Harpers Ferry decided to hold their positions rather than retreat. Lee launched the Maryland Campaign intending to attract European support for the Confederacy and gain recruits for his army. “Stonewall” Jackson on September 15, 1862.ĭuring the fall of 1862, Confederate Gen. Miles decided to surrender his 13,000-man garrison to Gen. After Confederate artillery took positions on Maryland and Bolivar Heights that overlooked the town, they unleashed a barrage that threatened Union garrison commander Col. “Stonewall” Jackson besieged the 13,000-man garrison at Harpers Ferry resulting in the largest surrender of American troops until World War II.Ĭonfederate Victory.
USS Constitution In 4 Minutes Watch Video.African Americans During the Revolutionary War.The First American President: Setting the Precedent.Kevin is the author of four books about the American Civil War, including To Hazard All: A Guide to the Maryland Campaign, 1862, part of the Emerging Civil War Series. He previously worked as a park ranger at Harpers Ferry National Historical Park. Pawlak is a historic site manager for Prince William County’s Office of Historic Preservation and a Certified Battlefield Guide at Antietam National Battlefield. Outside of work, Jon-Erik is a historic landmarks commissioner with the City of Wheeling, West Virginia, and a board member with the West Virginia Independence Hall Foundation.
He works as an archivist and records manager in Wheeling, West Virginia since 2021 he has also served as curator at the Captain Thomas Espy Grand Army of the Republic Post in Carnegie, PA. A native of historic Mount Pleasant, Ohio, Jon-Erik has spent more than fifteen years in the fields of history and preservation. Jon-Erik Gilot has been indelibly fascinated with Harpers Ferry since his first visit as a child-so much so that he later proposed to his wife on Maryland Heights. Richly filled with maps and images, it includes a driving and walking tour of sites related to Brown’s Raid so visitors today can walk in the footsteps of America’s meteor. John Brown’s Raid tells the story of the first shots that led to disunion. Roughly one year after Brown and his men attacked slavery in Virginia, the nation split apart, fueled by Brown’s fiery actions. Herman Melville and Walt Whitman extolled Brown as a “meteor” of the war. The nation’s dividing line had been drawn. Ultimately, Southerners cheered Brown’s death at the gallows while Northerners observed it with reverence.
RAID OF HARPERS FERRY TIMELIME TRIAL
There, they planned to begin a war to end slavery in the United States.īut after 36 tumultuous hours, John Brown’s Raid failed, and Brown himself became a prisoner of the state of Virginia.īrown’s subsequent trial further divided north and south on the issue of slavery as Brown justified his violent actions to a national audience forced to choose sides. John Brown, the infamous fighter on the Kansas plains and detester of slavery, led a band of nineteen men on a desperate nighttime raid that targeted the Federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry. The first shot of the American Civil War was not fired on April 12, 1861, in Charleston, South Carolina, but instead came on October 16, 1859, in Harpers Ferry, Virginia-or so claimed former slave turned abolitionist Frederick Douglass.
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