![Confederate artillery is positioned on the heights in Harpers Ferry to command the railroad bridge and the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal (Paul Fleury Mottelay and T. Campbell-Copeland, eds., The Soldier in Our Civil War: A Pictorial History of the Conflict, 1861-1865, Vol. 1 [New York: Stanley Bradley Publishing Company, 1893], 394-395)](https://www.crossroadsofwar.org/wp-content/uploads/10.8.soldierinourcivi01lesl_0409-between-mid-April-and-mid-June-1861-pp394-5.jpg "Confederate artillery is positioned on the heights in Harpers Ferry to command the railroad bridge and the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal (Paul Fleury Mottelay and T. Campbell-Copeland, eds., The Soldier in Our Civil War: A Pictorial History of the Conflict, 1861-1865, Vol. 1 [New York: Stanley Bradley Publishing Company, 1893], 394-395)")
![Plan of Union breastworks on Camp Hill at Harpers Ferry (George W. Wingate, History of the Twenty-Second Regiment of the National Guard of the State of New York: From its Organization to 1895 [New York: Edwin W. Dayton, 1896], 111-112)](https://www.crossroadsofwar.org/wp-content/uploads/22.22nd-reg-p111.jpg "Plan of Union breastworks on Camp Hill at Harpers Ferry (George W. Wingate, History of the Twenty-Second Regiment of the National Guard of the State of New York: From its Organization to 1895 [New York: Edwin W. Dayton, 1896], 111-112)")
![Soldiers and civilians mingle in a Union camp inside the right flank of the breastworks on Camp Hill (August 1862, George W. Wingate, artist; George W. Wingate, History of the Twenty-Second Regiment of the National Guard of the State of New York: From its Organization to 1895 [New York: Edwin W. Dayton, 1896], 112)](https://www.crossroadsofwar.org/wp-content/uploads/23.22nd-reg-p112.jpg "Soldiers and civilians mingle in a Union camp inside the right flank of the breastworks on Camp Hill (August 1862, George W. Wingate, artist; George W. Wingate, History of the Twenty-Second Regiment of the National Guard of the State of New York: From its Organization to 1895 [New York: Edwin W. Dayton, 1896], 112)")
![A soldier inspects a civilians pass (August 1862, Carl Wingate, artist; George W. Wingate, History of the Twenty-Second Regiment of the National Guard of the State of New York: From its Organization to 1895 [New York: Edwin W. Dayton, 1896], 62)](https://www.crossroadsofwar.org/wp-content/uploads/24.22nd-reg-p.62.jpg "A soldier inspects a civilians pass (August 1862, Carl Wingate, artist; George W. Wingate, History of the Twenty-Second Regiment of the National Guard of the State of New York: From its Organization to 1895 [New York: Edwin W. Dayton, 1896], 62)")
![Gen. John W. Geary established his headquarters in the former armory superintendents home atop Camp Hill (Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial History of the Civil War in the United States of America, Vol. 2 [Hartford, Conn.: T. Belknap, 1868], 137)](https://www.crossroadsofwar.org/wp-content/uploads/35.64a.Copy-of-Lossing-2-p137.jpg "Gen. John W. Geary established his headquarters in the former armory superintendents home atop Camp Hill (Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial History of the Civil War in the United States of America, Vol. 2 [Hartford, Conn.: T. Belknap, 1868], 137)")
![Two members of a Zouave regiment race mules in Harpers Ferry in October 1862 (Originally appeared in Frank Leslies Illustrated Newspaper, November 15, 1862; source for this image: Louis Shepheard Moat, ed., Frank Leslies Illustrated History of the Civil War [NY: Mrs. Frank Leslie, 1895], 223)](https://www.crossroadsofwar.org/wp-content/uploads/45.34a.Copy-of-importantevents00franrich_0223-Nov-1862-linnov1562.jpg "Two members of a Zouave regiment race mules in Harpers Ferry in October 1862 (Originally appeared in Frank Leslies Illustrated Newspaper, November 15, 1862; source for this image: Louis Shepheard Moat, ed., Frank Leslies Illustrated History of the Civil War [NY: Mrs. Frank Leslie, 1895], 223)")
![Former slaves who had escaped to Union lines (contraband) stand in front of the former armory superintendents home on Camp Hill, c.August 1862 (George W. Wingate, History of the Twenty-Second Regiment of the National Guard of the State of New York: From its Organization to 1895 [New York: Edwin W. Dayton, 1896], 85)](https://www.crossroadsofwar.org/wp-content/uploads/72.Copy-of-73.Wingate-22ndRegimentpage85-HAFE.jpg "Former slaves who had escaped to Union lines (contraband) stand in front of the former armory superintendents home on Camp Hill, c.August 1862 (George W. Wingate, History of the Twenty-Second Regiment of the National Guard of the State of New York: From its Organization to 1895 [New York: Edwin W. Dayton, 1896], 85)")
![A Confederate stockade atop Maryland Heights (Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial History of the Civil War in the United States of America, vol. 2 [Philadelphia, Pa.: G. W. Childs, 1866], 519)](https://www.crossroadsofwar.org/wp-content/uploads/73.56.Maryland-Heights-stockade-1861-Tim.jpg "A Confederate stockade atop Maryland Heights (Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial History of the Civil War in the United States of America, vol. 2 [Philadelphia, Pa.: G. W. Childs, 1866], 519)")
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