. Book of the Royal blue . W; \KTKl;S AT \v IN Harpers Ferry. The capture and extermi-nation of Brown and his men were but fore-runners of a more dreadful calamity. \\hfn the Civil War broke out HarpersFerry was considered the key to the Shen-andoah \alley, and it was the design of theFederal .Vrmy to enter the southern terri-tory to Richmond through this valley. , the beautiful valley receivedits HOW lie plume of The \alley of Dis-pute. During four years the marchingto and fro of the opposing armies com- luoralized and was in retreat at Cedar(reek, followed byCen. Farly
. Book of the Royal blue . W; \KTKl;S AT \v IN Harpers Ferry. The capture and extermi-nation of Brown and his men were but fore-runners of a more dreadful calamity. \\hfn the Civil War broke out HarpersFerry was considered the key to the Shen-andoah \alley, and it was the design of theFederal .Vrmy to enter the southern terri-tory to Richmond through this valley. , the beautiful valley receivedits HOW lie plume of The \alley of Dis-pute. During four years the marchingto and fro of the opposing armies com- luoralized and was in retreat at Cedar(reek, followed byCen. Farly. But Karlysmen, unfortunate for them, were satisfiedin takingi)ossessi()n of the camps and storesof the Federal Army, giving Sheridan anopportunity to revive his forces and turnthem back ujion (leneral Farly, with theconsecjuences of the almost total annihila-tion of his army. Buchanan Reed best tellsthe story in his famous ])oin), which, as tocomplete details, may be doubted by nevertheless has given Winchester. uixciiKSThi:. \-ii:<;i.\!A. promiiUiUe il t-iuild never otlu-rwise haveattained. i;.i; Eighty times during the four yearsstruggle was Winchester talcen and re-tak-en, first being in the hands of the Confeder-ates and then in possession of the Federals. When Lee surrendered at .\p]iomattoxthe people of Winchester turned the weaji-ons of war into the implements of industryand endeavored to bring order out of was a difficult undertaking at first imtthe people who had survived four years ofwar were equal to the economic difficultiesthat faced them. Some of its people, it istrue, were unecjual to the task and neverrecovered from the financial injury infiictedby the fortunes, or rather the misfortunes,of war, but in a few years the wheels of in-dustry were in motion until now Winchesteris a progressive city of over six thousandinhabitants with many industries to makethe people prosperous. The city is far famed for its naturaladvantages, its historical
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