[Rarebooks] FS: Reminiscences of Harper's Ferry 1862 -1886 GAR Report

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Nichols, William H. "Reminiscences of the Seige of Harper's Ferry,
September, 1862. A Paper read by Comrade Wm. H. Nichols before members of
Post 34, G.A.R."

Salem, Mass.: Observer Book and Job Print: 1886.

The Battle of Harpers Ferry was an ignominious Union defeat which took
place between September 12th and 15th, 1862, at the start of the Maryland
Campaign which culminated in the battle of Antietam. While Robert E. Lee's
army marched into Maryland, Stonewall Jackson's command surrounded and
captured the newly reinforced Union garrison at Harpers Ferry, capturing
more than 12,000 men, the largest surrender of Union forces during the
Civil War.

The author was a member of Brigadier General Julius White's brigade, and
arrived in Harper's Ferry on September 3rd, just days before the battle
began. The text is annotated with several notes of correction, one of them
regarding General Miles, the Union garrison commander who was mortally
wounded during the brief cannonade which preceded the Union surrender-
"Miles was carried in blanket by Graham & Sullivan of my Co. B, 9th VT".
The 9th Vermont was one of the units in White's brigade.

Softcover. 6"x9", 8 pages. Folded several times, some soil, some penned
notes. [39649]

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