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Title: History of the Civil War in America
Year: 1875 (1870s)
Authors: Paris, Louis-Philippe-Albert d'Orléans, comte de, 1838-1894 Tasistro, Louis F. (Louis Fitzgerald), 1808-1868 Coppée, Henry, 1821-1895 Nicholson, John P. (John Page), b. 1842
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Publisher: Philadelphia : J.H. Coates & Co.
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this unfortunate officer. Jackson, leaning against a tree, was sleeping soundly when A.P. Hill, approaching him, shook him for the purpose of introdu-cing the Federal general White, who had come to settle the termsof the capitulation. Unconditionally, murmured Jackson, andimmediately sunk again into a deep sleep which had scarcely beeninterrupted. The Federals were so utterly disorganized and dis-couraged that this answer was to them an order which they couldnot gainsay. Before noon the Confederates entered HarpersFerry, and received eleven thousand five hundred and eighty-three men as prisoners of war, with their arms and seventy-threepieces of artillery. Harpers Ferry was the counterpart of Don-elson. This event did not have the same disastrous consequencesto the Federals as Buckners capitulation did to the Confederates;but if it did not involve the irretrievable loss of a whole State,it robbed them of the only opportunity, perhaps, of inflicting auirreparable defeat upon Lees army.
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, >WTIJE1AM (HON WORKS CHAPTER IV. ANTIETAM. ON the morning of September 15th, while Franklin was re-snming his march toward Harpers Ferry, ignorant of thedisaster we have just related, McClellan was quickening the paceof the long columns that were filing through the ensanguinedgorges of Turners Gap. The enemy had abandoned during thenight the positions which the darkness had alone enabled him tohold the day before, while D. H. Hill, preceded by Longstreet,was hastily falling back toward Boonsboro. This village is sit-uated at a point where the Middletown road, after descending fromTurners Gap, divides into four branches; one is a continuationof the main road to the west-north-west, toward Williamsport;another, running to the south-west, strikes the Potomac nearSharpsburg; the third, to the north-west, leads to Hagerstovvn ;and the last, to the south-east, is that of Rohrersville. The firstthree cross the Antietam, which flows directly south from Hagers-town to the Potomac. The hil

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