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- Title
Cavalry Escape from Harpers Ferry.
- Authors
Blackwell, Jr., Samuel M.
- Abstract
The article discusses a cavalry escape from Harpers Ferry in what would become West Virginia, Maryland, and Pennsylvania during the Antietam campaign in September 1862 during the U.S. Civil War. The article examines the four U.S. cavalry regiments that escaped from Confederate troops. According to the article, mounted soldiers at Harpers Ferry were stationed to secure the railroad line from Baltimore, Maryland, through western Maryland from possible attacks by Confederate troops commanded by Confederate brigadier general Turner Ashby and major general J.E.B. Stuart. The article states that the three highest ranking officers in the Union cavalry brigade at Harpers Ferry were colonel Arno Voss, lieutenant colonel Hasbrouck Davis, and colonel Benjamin F. "Grimes" Davis.
- Subjects
HARPERS Ferry (W. Va.); WEST Virginia; UNITED States; CAVALRY -- History; MARYLAND Campaign, 1862; STUART, Jeb, 1833-1864; ASHBY, Turner, 1828-1862; VOSS, Arno; DAVIS, Hasbrouck; SIEGE of Harpers Ferry, W. Va., 1862; AMERICAN Civil War, 1861-1865; HISTORY
- Publication
Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society, 2012, Vol 105, Issue 2/3, p183
- ISSN
1522-1067
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.5406/jillistathistsoc.105.2-3.0183