Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1862-09-20
THE S'TORMINts OF IIARpER's
FERRY.
5000 Prisoners Captured and Ta-
rolled by The Rebels.
Eight Thousand Prisoners and -Four Bat
tericS CAPTURED.

yesterday, after Colonel Miles had been
severely If not mortally wounded.
The officers and men, supposed to be
about 5000, were parolcd.
BALTIMORE, Sept. 16-Thc following is
the special report of the American, from
Frederick:
The combined forces of Lorinp and Jack
son stromed the works at Harpcr's Ferry
Yesterday morning, and captured the posi-
ton.
Colonel Miles is said to have made a dcs- |
pcrate resistance. The accounts differ: some |
say that he was wounded after he hostcd |
white flag and other accounts are that he |
was killed or fatally wounded before the
surrender. All our forces were parolcd,
numbering 5000, the whole of whom have
arrived at Frederick.
When the parolcd men left, the enemy
was preparing to blow up the three spans of
the railroad bridge, which is of iron
| Reports were circulated in Frederick to-
! day that Gen. Mcclellan had rctaken IIar
! pCrs Ferry, but it is not doomed reliable.
The special correspondent of the .1merioan
at Frederick says -
regret to have toanuouncc the surrender
of Harpcr's Ferry, with all the forces and
stores there, to the enemy, at nine o'clock on
! Monday morning
The enlisted men and some officers have
been paroled and arrived here. From them
gather the following particulars -
| The Rebels commenced the attack on
| Friday noon on our forces, on the Maryland
Heights. The skirmishng continued throuh-
out the day and evening, and was renewed
on Saturday. The enemy was driven back
with considerable loss. They came up sever
al times and were rcpulscd. When it was
discovered that they were coming up in
overwhelming force, an order was given to
spike the guns and throw them down the
mountain. The whole force from the Heights
then retired in safety, the guns from Camp
Hill shclling the enemy when they attempted
to pursue our retiring men.
On Sunday afternoon party of our men
again assembled the Heights and brought
away their field pieces which they had left
there unspilCd
On sunday, at noon, the Rebels appeared
in great force on Loudon Heights. Colonel
Miles shcllcd them from point to point
Some of their guns were dislodgcd but they
| still managed to keep up a brisk fire from
, some of their batteries which were run back
out of sight and loaded.
The cannonadng was kept up all day on
Sunday without doing much damage. The
firing ceased at dusk ON Sunday evening.
, and was resumed again on Monday morning
+ at daylight, and kept up until 0 O'Clock
when Colonel Miles ordered white hag tu
p raised.
c There was considerable fog and smoke
e and the enemy either did not see the flag ol
| could not see it, and kept up heavy firing
for thrcc.quartcrs of an hour. About ter
f minutes after the flag was up Il shell struck
h Colonel Miles, shattcring his right leg. II
c was amputatcd before the prisoners wcr,
n parolcd.
" There were about 230O cavalry in com
/. mand, all of whom, except about forty, cs
It capped abobt eight o'clock on Sunday night
and cut their way through to Grccncastl
IS with but little loss
e Ihc balance of the troops, numbering ron
r SIN To eight thousand, with General White
IS command from Martinsburg, were all sur
Il rendered
c Gen. House captured an Aid-dc-Ca O
o Gen. Stuart on Monday afternoon, who wa
II making his way from IIarpcI's Ferry t,
Boonsboro' with despatch from Genera
i Jackson to Gen. Lee announcing the captu
+ lation of the place. The Aid supposed Gen
', Lee at BoonsbOro, which was in our DOS
1t session.
This was the first intimation of the SUI
y render our General received. At the tim
- General Franklin was within three hour
1t march OF the Ferry, going to the relief q
If the bclcagucrcd command, whittier he Ia,
y been sent by Gen. Mcclellan as soon as II
= received the despatch from Colonel Miles O,
Monday morning that hc was in danger.
d The intelligence from the front this mor!
e ing Is OF the most cheering character. not
IS wthstanding the bad news from Harper
, Ferry. General Mcclellan was pushing then
K with a vigor most destructive To the enemy
Il lie pursued the enemy on Monday morI,
] II. 4
Y fresh troops. The enemy took the roa,
Il towards the river at ITarpcr's Ferry and a
Shcphcrdstown, and he was pursuing an,
e shclling their retreat, causing great loss.
5 In several contests, on Monday whcr
|, they made IA stand, our troops charged ol
:. them with such vigor that they fell bacl
1 from point to point in great haste.
r The battles and advantages obtained ol
c Monday are thought to be superior in inpor
, tance to those of SUNDAY
n Drayton's South Carolina Brigade i
e entirely gone, either killed, wounded. o.
G prisoners. The Seventeenth Michigan. on,
OF the new regiments, done up this brigade
e first with bullets, and finally with tn,
. bayonct.
: General Howell Cobb was wounded ant
taken prisoner. lie will be back to Frede
rick sooner than he boasted he would.
General Mcclellan was pushing on then
last evening, however, very close and haC
already sent TO the rear eight thousand pri
soncrs and four batteries.
Colonel Strogc, Nineteenth Virginia, and
Colonel James, of the Third South Caroling
Battalion were killed on Sunday last, and
their bodies left in our possession. Tho
South Carolina Brigade was very severely
handled.
General Hatch, commanding Gen. Keycs'
division, (who is sick) was slightly wound.
The Major of the Seventy Pennsyl.
wanna, whose name | do not remember, was
Killed and Captain Brady, of the l1th Penn
; sylvania Reserves was also killed.