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Negroes Driven South by the Rebel Officers:
On September 15, 1862, 12,500 Union soldiers garrisoned at Harpers Ferry surrendered to Maj. Gen. Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson's Confederates. After the battle, Confederate forces returned many captured African-Americans to slavery. Contemporary accounts estimate that more than a thousand runaway slaves were rounded up and sent South following the Federal surrender. |