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OCTOBER 4, 1862.] HARPER'S WEEKLY. 629 MAJOR-GENERAL HOOKER.—PHOTOGRAPHED BY BRADY.—[SEE PAGE 634.]MAJOR-GENERA FRANKLIN.—[PHOTOGRAPHED BY BRADY.] HARPER'S FERRY.WE give, on the preceding page, a view of HARPER'S FERRY, which was surrendered to the rebels by Colonel Miles on 15th. Skirmishing commenced on the Maryland Heights on Thursday afternoon, 11th, continuing three hours. The battle was renewed again on Friday morning, at daybreak. Our forces held their ground until about noon, when, being flanked on the left, they were compelled to fall back to the large guns. Not long afterward these were spiked, and the whole command retreated down the mountain. On Sunday the enemy commenced a fierce cannonading from the Maryland and Loudon Heights, which was replied to by our forces. It continued until sunset, our guns holding their own in fine style. During Sunday night the rebels planted more guns, and in the morning opened in all directions upon our forces, drawn up in line of battle on Bolivar Heights. It appeared to the officers commanding useless to contend against such overwhelming odds, and the white flag was raised at twenty minutes past 7 o'clock. A few moments later Colonel Miles was struck by a piece of shell, which carried away his left thigh. The commands which surrendered were: Colonel Downye, Third Maryland Home Brigade 600 Colonel Malesby, First Maryland Home Brigade 900 Hundred and Fifteenth New York 1000 Hundred & Twenty-sixth New York 1000 Thirty-ninth New York 530 Hundred and Eleventh New York 1000 Hundred and Twenty-fifth New York 1000 Thirty-second Ohio 650 Twelfth New York State Militia 500 Eighty-seventh Ohio 900 Ninth Vermont 800 Sixty-fifth Illinois 850 Graham's Battery 110 M'Grath's 115 Fifteenth Indiana 143 Phillips's New York Battery 120 Potts's Battery 100 Rigby's Battery 100 Scattered companies 50 Officer, connected with Head-quarters and Commissary Department 50 The following guns were surrendered: 350 will cover our loss in killed and wounded. MAJOR-GENERAL FRANKLIN.WE publish on this page, from a photograph by Brady, a portrait of MAJOR-GENERAL FRANKLIN, commander of the 6th army corps of the Army of the Potomac. William Benjamin Franklin was born in Pennsylvania about the year 1821, and entered West Point in 1839. He graduated at the head of his class in 1843; being a classmate of Ulysses S. Grant, Reynolds, Augur, etc. On the 1st of July, 1843, he was appointed a Brevet Second Lieutenant of Topographical Engineers, and on the 21st of September, 1846, received his full commission. He served in Mexico, and was brevetted First Lieutenant for gallant and meritorious conduct at Buena Vista, dating from February 23, 1847. This brevet was awarded in May, 1848. From July 1848 to 1850 he was Acting Assistant Professor of Natural and Experimental Philosophy at the Military Academy at West Point. He was next placed on lighthouse duty, to which he was appointed in January, 1853. He received his full commission of First Lieutenant in March, 1853, and Captain on the 1st of July, 1857. In the Army Register for 1859 he was the junior captain but one in the corps, and in that of 1860 last but two. In the register for 1861 his name stands two degrees higher on the roll, there being four captains his junior. On the 14th of May, 1861, he was appointed to the colonelcy of the Twelfth United States Infantry, one of the new regular regiments organized at the commencement of the rebellion. With this rank he had charge of the first brigade of the third division of General McDowell's army at Bull Run. He was appointed a Brigadier-General in July, and, on the reorganization of the army, was given the command of a division consisting of the brigades of Slocum, Kearney, and Newton, which afterward became the first division of the first army corps commanded by McDowell. When McDowell was directed to remain at Fredericksburg, Franklin was detached and sent to McClellan on the peninsula. No officer won higher distinction than he in the memorable contests on the march to Richmond, and as a reward for his gallantry he was appointed to the command of an army corps with the rank of Major-General of Volunteers. He has lately won fresh laurels at the battles of South Mountain and Sharpsburg. THE LATE GENERAL MANSFIELD.—PHOTOGRAPHED BY BRADY.—[SEE PAGE 636.]THE LATE GENERAL RENO.—PHOTOGRAPHED BY BRADY.—[SEE PAGE 634.] |
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