Author C.W. Whitehair will recount the daring 1862 escape of Union forces from Harpers Ferry during a free Book Talk at The Manassas Museum on September 23 at 2 p.m. Whitehair’s book, Escape Across The Potomac, tells the story of the September night when 14,000 Union soldiers at Harpers Ferry, Virginia were surrounded on three sides by 23,000 Confederate soldiers from the Army of Northern Virginia under the command of General Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson.
