AN AMAZING VIEW OF HARPER’S FERRY FROM MARYLAND HEIGHTS — During the Civil War, Harpers Ferry, Virginia (now West Virginia), was a strategic prize at the confluence of the Potomac and Shenandoah rivers, where key rail and canal routes met. In 1862, it was the site of the largest surrender of U.S. troops during the war, when Stonewall Jackson forced the capitulation of more than 12,000 Union soldiers just before the Battle of Antietam. From Maryland Heights, I captured this train chugging past to

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