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Careless weapons firing endangered soldiers and civilians alike. The .58 caliber lead minie balls struck many houses in Harpers Ferry.
"... lights of every kind being regarded as singnals to the Rebels were usually greeted by a volley of guns."
-- Annie P. Marmion was a child during the Civil War and lived at Harpers Ferry with her father, Dr. Nicholas Marmion
"Our unripe experience led us to mistake the glistening of the moonbeams upon the windows of a church opposite for the camplights of the enemy. We fired a volley into it."
-- Sgt. William Barnes, Co. I, 13th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, describing an 1861 volley into St. Peter's Catholic Church |