Excerpt from The Annals of Harper's Ferry: With Sketches of Its Founder, and Many Prominent Characters Connected With Its History, Anecdotes, &C Harper's Ferry, including Boliver, is a town which, before the re bellion, contained a population of three thousand, nine - tenths of whom were whites. At the breaking out of the war, nearly all the inhabi tants left their homes, some casting their lots with the Confederacy, and about an equal number with the old Government. On the res toration of peace, comparatively few returned. A great many colored people, however, who came at various times, with the army, from Southern Virginia, have remained, so that the proportion of races is materially changed. Many soldiers of the National army who mar ried Virginia ladies during the war, have, also, settled there, and, con sequently, the place, yet. Contains a considerable number of inhabi tants. The present population may be set down at sixteen hundred whites and seven hundred blacks. The town is situated in J efi'erson County, West Virginia, at the confluence of the Potomac and She nandoah, at the base and in the very shadow of the Blue Ridge moun tains. The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad crosses the Potomac at the place on a magnificent bridge, and the Winchester and Potomac Rail road has its Northern terminus in the town. The Chesapeake and Ohio Canal, also, is in the immediate neighborhood. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.