Destruction of the Harpers Ferry Highway - Railroad Bridge, Jefferson County, Va. (W. Va.)

Identifier:

001264

Collection Number:

A&M 3250, Photographs. Civil War. Stutler Collection

Title:

Destruction of the Harpers Ferry Highway - Railroad Bridge, Jefferson County, Va. (W. Va.)

Date:

1861/06/14

Description:

Blowing up the highway-railroad bridge at Harpers Ferry in the early morning of June 14, 1861 when Confederate Brigadier General Joseph E. Johnston and his Army evacuated the town. The bridge was completely destroyed - a fate it was to suffer by fire and flood nine times during the civil war. From a sketch in Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper. See West Virginia Collection Pamphlet 6610 and Boyd Stutler's 'West Virginia in the Civil War.'

Subjects:

Civil War--Stutler Collection., Bridges--West Virginia--Harpers Ferry.

Personal Names:

Johnston, Joseph E. (Joseph Eggleston), 1807-1891.

Geographic:

Harpers Ferry (W. Va.)--History--Civil War, 1861-1865.

Acquisition Method:

Acquired

Medium:

print

Projects:

West Virginia History OnView