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Lincoln Visits Harpers Ferry After Antietam Siege
President Lincoln arrived at Harpers Ferry on October 1 1862 in a surprise visit to the Army of the Potomac. General McClellan Sumner and Hancock led a review of the 2nd Corps after Antietam, with Lincoln inspecting fortifications and meeting officers amid wartime unrest and shifting control of the town.
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Boyd B
Stutler
Harpers Ferry
Stonewall Jackson
Jackson
Lee
Army of the Potomac
McClellan
Het
Sharpsburg
Antietam
A. P. Hill
Harper
Edwin V. Sumner
Second Corps
Stanton
Army
Baltimore & Ohio Railroad
John W. Garret
Ward Hill Lamon
District of Columbia
Bunker Hill
Berkeley County
Virginia
John A. McClernand
Ilinois
Lincoln
MacClellan
Peninsula
Potomac
Harpers Fevey
South Mountain
Antietam Creek
2Nd Corps
Sumner
Anthony Hall
Storer College
Sumners
Tompkins
Bolivar
Oliver O. Howard
Howard
Winfield Scott Hancock
Hancock
William Henry French
French Sure
Thomas F. Meagher
New York Irish
Abe
Indiana
Whittlesay
Armory Grounds
John Brown
Presi [Dent
2Nd Cavalry
Washington
Albert D. Richardson
Kansas
New York Tribune
Henry FE. Wing
Miles
Maryland
Loudon Heights
John W. Geary
Pennsylvania