Still driving
Pope's army, the battery moved on to
Harper's Ferry with the army, and reached there on the 15th of September, when the place was invested, guns being put in position on
Maryland Heights, Bolivar Heights, and
Loudoun Heights.
A furious cannonade was soon opened, but the enemy still held out. Finally
General Jackson sent word to
General A. P. Hill to take the place at the point of the bayonet.
General Hill returned answer to
General Jackson that if he would give him twenty minutes he could take it with his artillery.
Jackson assented.
Hill immediately ordered the
Crenshaw Battery and the Purcell Battery, which were in front of the main works, up to within 500 or 600 yards of the redoubt, a rapid and destructive fire was opened, and the place surrendered, half of a tent being used for the white flag of surrender.
General White (one of the garrison) had a leg shot away by one of the
Crenshaw's 6-pounders.
General Miles was the
commanding officer.
Upwards of eleven thousand prisoners, seventy-two pieces of artillery, all their small arms and munitions of war were captured.
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Captain Crenshaw was detailed to look after and dispose of the artillery, horses, and supplies, which was done satisfactorily; but scarcely had the task been completed when, on the 17th, orders came to hasten to
