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| Jackson Takes Command Early 1861 |
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| Jackson Arrives in Harpers Ferry in early 1861 to train the fledgling Confederate Army. One of the Militia Units asigned to train the new recruits was the Continental Morgan Guard (5th Va. Co. k.) | |||||||||||||||||||
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| After taking Harpers Ferry Jackson moves on Martinsburg to move all the rolling stock in the rail yard to Richmond. He must move it from Martinsburg overland to the nearset Southern rail head in Strausburg about 50 miles away. He has all the trains taken aprt piece by peice to be reassembled in Richmond. | |||||||||||||||||||
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| Jackson's men and horses pull the trians down Braddock Street in Winchester about 15 miles from Strausburg. | |||||||||||||||||||
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