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.

While there were many battles during the Civil War at Harpers Ferry, the most famous came just ... building during the Civil ...

Pp. xxvi, 166. Illus., 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 tensions and ...

I was born and raised in Washington, D.C., and I grew up visiting Park Service Civil War battlefields in the ... Gettysburg National Military Park and Harpers Ferry National Historical Park as ...

Although the fort did not play a leading role in the battle — the fighting was farther to the south — it remains one of the city's most important Civil War sites. There are new efforts ...

The National Park Service is set to demolish five deteriorating structures at Harpers Ferry National Historical Park, ...

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 ...