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Robert E.Lee did not want to continue on to Pennsylvania without capturing the town, which was on his supply line and would control one of his possible routes of retreat if the invasion did not go well.

Dividing his army of approximately 40,000 into four sections, he used the cover of the mountains to sent three columns under Stonewall Jackson to surround and capture the town.The Battle of Harpers Ferry started with light fighting September 13 to capture the Maryland Heights to the northeast while John Walker moved back over the Potomac to capture Loudoun Heights south of town.

The town's garrison of 14,000 Federal troops played a key role in the Confederate invasion of Maryland in September 1862.

In many books the town is called "Harper's Ferry" with an apostrophe.For example, Horace Greeley, The American Conflict: A History of the Great Rebellion in the United States of America, 1860-64.

Lieutenant Israel Greene was ordered to take a force of 86 Marines to the town.

Arms production never returned to Harpers Ferry.Because of the town's strategic location on the railroad and at the northern end of the Shenandoah Valley, both Union and Confederate troops moved through Harpers Ferry frequently.

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