Harper's Weekly Illustration of U.S. Marines attacking the firehouse which John Brown used as a fort during his raid on ... the federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia — a town surrounded ...

White abolitionist John Brown and twenty of his men attempt to start an armed slave revolt in 1859 by seizing a U.S. arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia. Based on true events.

HARPERS FERRY ... Yet this easternmost town in West Virginia didn’t gain national fame until the Civil War. It was here, in 1859, that abolitionist John Brown and his small group of men ...

Harpers Ferry in West Virginia is one of the most picturesque towns I have ever visited. I stood leaning on a railing with my three sons, eating a Charleston Chew and looking out at the view over the ...

Harper's Weekly Illustration of U.S. Marines attacking the firehouse which John Brown used as a fort during his raid on ... the federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia — a town surrounded ...

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 ...

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 ...