And God has blessed us even more abundantly than we supposed.
The rumor that our invincible Stonewall Jackson had been sent by Lee to
Harper's Ferry, and had taken it, is True. Nearly 12,000 men surrendered there
on the 15th inst., after the loss of two or three hundred on their side, and
only three killed and a few wounded on ours. We got 90 guns, 15,000
stand of small arms, 18,000 fine horses, 200 wagons, and stores of various
kinds, worth millions.
SOURCE: John Beauchamp Jones, A Rebel War Clerk's
Diary at the Confederate States Capital, Volume 1, p. 153
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