Francis Scott Key writes the “Star Spangled Banner,” 1814
Battle of Boonsboro, 1862
Rule of the Carpet-bagger shaken, New Orleans, 1874
September Fifteenth
General Jackson, after a brief dispatch to General Lee announcing the capitulation, rode up to Bolivar and down into Harper’s Ferry. The curiosity of the Union Army to see him was so great that the soldiers lined the sides of the road. Many of them uncovered as he passed, and he invariably returned the salute. One man had an echo of response all about him when he said aloud: “Boys, he’s not much for looks, but if we’d had him we wouldn’t have been caught in this trap.”
Henry Kyd Douglas
Capture of Harper’s Ferry by Jackson, 1862
September Sixteenth
Mr. Lincoln, sir, have you any late news from Mr. Harper’s Ferry? I heard that Stone W. Jackson kept the parole for a few days, and that about fourteen thousand crossed over in twenty-four hours. He is a smart ferryman, sure. Do your folks know how to make it pay? It is a bad crossing, but I suppose it is a heap safer than Ball’s Bluff or Shepherdstown.