John Brown was a man of action -- a man who would not be deterred from his mission of abolishing slavery. On October 16, 1859, he led 21 men on a raid of the federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry ...

During the summer of 1859, John Brown rented a farm in Maryland from the heirs of Booth Kennedy. A few miles outside Harpers Ferry, Virginia (now West Virginia), it was a good hiding spot for ...

Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! On October 16, 1859, abolitionist John Brown and his team launched a raid on a federal armory located in Harpers Ferry which was located in the ...

Vicious partisan attacks against a former, and possibly future, president violate the Uniform Code of Military Justice.

ISBN: 1611215978 John Brown and the Coming of the Civil War John Brown ... The actual raid, on the night of October 16, 1859, began well. Brown's band of 22, including a couple of his sons and several ...

John Brown, American Abolitionist Today’s event ... Brown was hung on December 2, 1859, for murder and treason. Catherine Baldau, executive director of the Harpers Ferry Park Association ...

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

The first listed landlords at the pub were John Brown (1859), John Brown Jnr (1861-63), Elizabeth Brown (1863-71), Edward ...

It was here that they met John Brown as he passed through in early 1859, transporting people who had been enslaved in Missouri to freedom. That summer, the two boys bade their mother goodbye, despite ...

After being captured and hanged on Dec. 2, 1859, the revolutionary leader's ... as snowshoe and cross-country ski trails.) However, John Brown Farm does not provide trail maps, so plan to print ...

It was a point of supply for Meriwether Lewis’s Corps of Discovery, the site of John Brown’s abolitionist raid in 1859, a key Civil War battlefield, and the meeting place for the Niagara Movement, a ...