Harper's Ferry, a post-village of West Virginia, situated among beautiful scenery at the confluence of the Shenandoah with the Potomac, where the latter is crossed by a bridge, 81 miles W. of Baltimore by rail. It was the scene of John Brown's abolition raid in 1859; and here a Union army of over 11,500 men, under General D. H. Miles, surrendered to Stonewall Jackson in 1862. The arsenal and armoury were burned in 1861, to prevent their falling into the hands of the Confederates. Pop. 764.
Harper's Ferry
Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 5: Friday to Humanitarians, p. 568
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