Dennis Frye: Stonewall is Stopped, Harper's Ferry May 30, 1862 by Jim Surkamp

TRANSCRIPT plus images at civilwarscholars.com/?p=5248 4558 words
Dennis Fry: (in closing)
This was, perhaps, one of the first instances that the United States will use the railroad in a rapid troop deployment - to move troops during an emergency from one location - Washington, in this case - to another - Harper's Ferry - to stop an enemy advance. They succeed. If it had not been for the railroad, there was no way they could have gotten those Union soldiers out here quickly, and Jackson, indeed, probably would have forced the evacuation of Harper's Ferry and cleared the Shenandoah Valley of all Union soldiers. Only here was Stonewall Jackson stopped.
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[@rclendening]

I thought it was tough when I walked up Maryland Heights a couple years ago. I can’t imagine how they got those guns up there.

[@paulmorales3815]

Wow! I have never heard or read of this

[@imnothear]

very cool!

[@TheSecretsoftheheart]

'Only here was SW Jackson stopped" That;s hardly a fact to be proud of,,

[@carywest9256]

Yankee Gen.Banks was the best supplier for the ANV in '62,then later in Louisiana in '63 and '64 during The Red River Campaign. Thus, his moniker " Commissary" Banks!

[@hvymettle]

Lincoln was acting as his own general-in-chief. Jackson posed little threat to DC - his 15,000 men were too few, he lacked siege artillery, and he had no supply line. Lincoln took the bait and diverted men from McClellan's main effort on the Richmond front. Historians tend to shift the blame to McClellan, but it was Lincoln who blundered.

[@birheadjones7459]

Sheridan is the devil himself

[@tonyvogler7778]

General Jackson was the Greatest!

[@mthompson0331]

no, no he wasnt at all lol

[@mthompson0331]

he wasnt even the best southern general.