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Why did Robert E. Lee send Stonewall Jackson to capture the large Union garrison ar Harpers Ferry?

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At Frederick, Md., he divided (Sept. 10) his army, sending Stonewall Jackson to capture the large Union garrison at Harpers Ferry and thus clear his communications through the Shenandoah valley.

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