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Traces the battles over Harpers Ferry, Virginia, which was controlled by twenty-eight different Civil War commanders during the war, and their grievous toll on the lives of the townsfolk and the soldiers who garrisoned the town. UP.
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Civil War historian and writer Chester G. Hearn recounts the story of the turbulent war years from Brown's arrival in July, 1859, through the early months of the Reconstruction in the summer of 1865, emphasizing as much the civilian experience as the military activities. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.
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