Disunion: Ms. Yarrow and the Road to Antietam
Looking east across Maryland’s Pleasant Valley on Sept. 11, 1862, Polly Yarrow could see men in Confederate gray coming through Brownsville and Crampton’s Gaps in South Mountain and just a few miles from the 10,000 Union troops garrisoned in and around Harpers Ferry.
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