The historic part of Harpers Ferry is managed by the National Parks Service, so the boys were begrudgingly working on Junior ...

He had been ready in 1858 to launch his war -- he had both the men and the ... He rented a farm in Maryland, across the Potomac River from Harpers Ferry. Here he assembled his arms and waited ...

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

While there were many battles during the Civil War at Harpers Ferry, the most famous came just beforehand – and many believe ...

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 state of Virginia during that time but is now the ...

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 ...

Made up of soldiers from Wayne and Ontario counties, the 111th served with distinction in the Civil War, including the ...

As Civil War sites continue to mark 150 years since America’s most important conflict, Harpers Ferry, Antietam, and Gettysburg tell old stories in a new light. Before daybreak one summer morning, I ...

Spotlight on an original weapon that was used by the supporters of the abolitionist John Brown in his historic raid on Harper’s Ferry in 1859 ... before the Civil War, if you were anti-slavery ...

Perhaps you've also stayed at the oldest U.S. inn in Concord, Massachusetts, which is supposedly haunted, or gone to see the Civil War sites at Harpers Ferry. However, there is another town you ...

In one fateful night, John Brown brought the country closer to Civil War (Video: Meredith Bragg). Read more at http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history-archaeology/Day ...

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 ...