John Brown's plan seemed fairly straightforward: he and his men would establish a base in the Blue Ridge Mountains from which they would assist runaway slaves and launch attacks on slaveholders.

ISBN: 1611215978 John Brown and the Coming of the Civil War John Brown’s raid on Harpers Ferry amplified North ... and his movement to Harper's Ferry. The actual raid, on the night of October 16, 1859 ...

John Brown and ... "Kansas was Brown's trial by fire, his initiation into violence, his preparation for real war," he says. "By 1859, when he raided Harpers Ferry, Brown was ready, in his own ...

John Brown hoped to end slavery when he raided a federal armory at Harpers Ferry in 1859. His plan failed, but he still changed the course of history. “You can weigh John Brown’s body well enough, but ...

In his epic John ... Harpers Ferry to the halls of Congress. As a result, his last adventure — still a familiar episode in history — was long foreseen. On the evening of October 16, 1859 ...

John Brown is cornered at Harpers Ferry and Robert E Lee's army rushes the armory doors. He died to make men holy, let us die to make men free, While God is marching on. Glory, glory, hallelujah.

The First Battle of the Civil War? This is a quite good treatment of John Brown’s famous “raid” on Harper’s Ferry (October 16 -18, 1859). Dr. Poland, a retired university professor, opens with a ...

Prior to his famous assault of Harpers Ferry's arsenal in the late 1850s, Brown resided at this property. After being captured and hanged on Dec. 2, 1859 ... However, John Brown Farm does not ...

Harper's Weekly Illustration of U.S. Marines attacking the firehouse which John ... Harper's Ferry. PD By the summer of 1859, Brown had finalized his plans. His target was the federal arsenal at ...

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 ...