Roughly 20 minutes south of West Virginia's oldest town, travelers can discover natural beauty and unforgettable stories at ...
maps, appends., biblio., index. $16.95 paper. ISBN: 1611215978 John Brown and the Coming of the Civil War John Brown’s raid on Harpers Ferry amplified North / South ... rather than turning them over ...
As a vital early American town, Harpers Ferry has been the site of a number of historical events. It was a point of supply for Meriwether Lewis’s Corps of Discovery, the site of John Brown’s ...
culminating in the raid on Harpers Ferry. After the election of President Lincoln in 1860, seven southern states seceded and Civil War broke out, followed by four years of bloody fighting and the ...
On the night of Sunday, October 16, 1859, hoping to bring about the eventual end of slavery, radical abolitionist John Brown launched an armed attack at Harpers Ferry, Virginia ... activism on the ...
He rented a farm in Maryland, across the Potomac River from Harpers Ferry. Here he assembled his ... The raid ultimately hastened the advent of the Civil War.