Harper's Ferry at the Close of the Civil War

Civil War Harper's Weekly, March 11, 1865

This site features an online archive of the Harper's Weekly newspapers published during the Civil War. This archive includes incredible eye-witness accounts of the key events of this period. This material offers the serious student of the war a resource not available elsewhere.

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Capture of Wilmington

Lee's Plan to use Colored Troops

Capture of Charleston, South Carolina

Civil War Field Hospital

Laying First Transatlantic Telegraph

Jeff Davis Cartoon

Petersburg Signal Station

Harper's Ferry

Telegraph Cable

You are viewing a picture of Harper's Ferry as it looked at the end of the Civil War. The illustration is from an original Harper's Weekly newspaper, and was created by an eye-witness to the scenes depicted. The leaf shows three views of the town. One shows a touching image of a woman in a cemetery, kneeling before a grave. Doubtless the grave of a loved one killed in the war. The leaf shows many important details of everyday life at the close of the war.