Harper's Weekly Illustration of U.S. Marines attacking the firehouse which John Brown used as a fort during his raid on Harper's Ferry. PD By the summer of 1859, Brown had finalized his plans.

It starts at Lockwood House, which overlooks what was Harper Cemetery. Originally built in 1848 as housing for the armory ...

In 1859, radical abolitionist John Brown led a raid on the U.S. arsenal at Harpers Ferry in what was then a part of western Virginia. (Ten of Brown’s men were killed and five escaped.

In 1859, radical abolitionist John Brown went on trial in Charles Town, Virginia, for his failed raid at Harpers Ferry. (He was convicted and later hanged.) In 1962, during a meeting of the U.N ...

In 1859, abolitionist John Brown led a raid on the federal arsenal at Harper's Ferry, Va. He was later convicted of treason ...

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Although polls show a tight race, most have given Sherrod Brown ... Wednesday: The raid on Harpers Ferry was planned from a boarding house in Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, in 1859.

White abolitionist John Brown and twenty of his men attempt to start an armed slave revolt in 1859 by seizing a U.S. arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia. Based on true events.

Daingerfield was Acting Paymaster at the Harpers Ferry Armory during John Brown's 1859 Raid, where he was taken hostage but not injured. On June 10, 1861, he joined the Confederate States Army and was ...